Potential Demand for Proton Therapy

National Demand

  • According to the American Cancer Society there are nearly 1.5 million new cancer cases per year2
    • Of these approximately 60 percent1 (900,000 per year) will seek radiation therapy at some point during care
    • Using a conservative estimate that 30 percent of these 900,000 patients would benefit from proton therapy, approximately 270,000 patients could seek this technology
  • Today’s operating centers can treat an estimated 6,000 patients a year.

Illinois/CHICAGO

  • According to the American Cancer Society, there are more than 63,000 new patients with cancer in Illinois each year2
    • 60 percent of cancer cases in Illinois1 (nearly 38,000 per year) will get radiation at some point during treatment (21,000 in Chicago metropolitan area3)
    • Using conservative estimates, about 30 percent of these 38,000 cases could benefit from proton therapy: more than 11,000 per year in Illinois (more than 6,000 in the Chicago metropolitan area3)


    • Web site:  www.procure.com/il

    Media Contact:
    Sky Opila, PCI
    312/558-1770
    sopila@pcipr.com

Footnotes: 
  1. Based on estimates from the American Cancer Society, the American Society for Radiation Oncology and the Radiological Society of North America
  2. American Cancer Society Facts and Figures 2010
  3. Illinois Department of Public Health, County-specific Cancer Incidence Rates, All Races, Illinois, 2002-2006