NCC in Seoul Korea celebrates 11 years of proton therapy saving patients
The National Cancer Center said it has reaped meaningful results in proton therapy to treat cancer during the past 11 years, after introducing it to Korea for the first time in 2007. Due to the high cost of operating the proton therapy machine, the state-run hospital has been providing the proton treatment only for patients with the right indications. NCC also provides a program to help low-income cancer patients receive the proton therapy for free, which is almost impossible to do for private medical institutions. Only NCC and Samsung Medical Center have proton therapy machines in Korea. Proton therapy good in liver, pancreatic, eye, lung cancer NCC held a press conference at Goyang Aram Nuri in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, on Friday to promote the proton therapy’s clinical effectiveness. The hospital also held an international symposium on “Clinical Evidence in Particle Therapy & Current Status of Particle Therapy in Asia-Oceania” at the NCC’s cancer prevention and e...