East Harlem's $300M Proton-Beam Therapy Cancer Center Nears Completion - Caroline Lewis

Nearly nine years after a consortium of hospitals first started planning to bring a proton-beam therapy center to New York, the more than $300 million project is nearing completion. The New York Proton Center, on 126th Street in East Harlem, features three 300-ton gantries, which rotate around patients to deliver radiation. They were on display during a tour of the construction site Wednesday for media and city officials. The center expects to see its first patient in February 2019. The project is a collaboration between Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Montefiore Health System and Mount Sinai Health System. It is managed by ProHealth Proton Management. Kenneth Rosenzweig, MD, professor and system chair of radiation oncology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai said, "the therapy's ability to limit radiation exposure can help lower costs in the long run. If we can limit side effects and limit the cancer coming back, ultimately it's going to be a benefit both in the quality of life in our patients and in the costs."

- Kenneth Rosenzweig, MD, Professor, System Chair, Radiation Oncology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

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