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Prayers for your quick recovery.

In such medical applications it’s not the size of the protons that matters though, it’s how they are used.

it’s not the size of the protons that matters though, it’s how they are used.

That's what the ladies say ... until they see my protons.

I was just sorta making a joke. I had the proton therapy for prostate cancer in Houston and all seems well so far. I chose that over radiation because it is aimed directly into the tumor. Radiation treats the whole abdomen and radiates everything like the rectum, bladder, and everything in between. The doctor explained that he could even regulate how deep the protons penetrated by varying the voltage on the gun. They even used large blocks of plastic to block the unwanted protons in the beam from hitting anything but the tumor. All of the energy was released in the prostate and minimal damage was done to the surrounding tissue.

I highly recommend this procedure to anyone you know that gets prostate and other cancers. Many of the people I received treatment with were told there was nothing they could do, so go home and die. A friend I made there had throat cancer and was given 6 months to live. He is completely cured now and is home back at work. It is an excellent treatment for contained tumors that can be "aimed" at. tumors that have spread usually have to have chemo and radiation.

The proton beam can even destroy tumors of the eye without losing your sight. They have a whole wing for prostate treatment, but many more are treated for brain and other locations. I wept almost daily for the children that were treated there with brain cancer. Many had already been cut on other places and then sent home to die. I consider myself an unpaid proton booster for MD Anderson. If you have to have cancer, get it treated there. They were all wonderful to me. BTW, many high dollar people were there also. We had people from Hollywood to China to Saudi Arabia getting treatment there. If people with money chose MD Anderson, that was a pretty good endorsement for me. There was even a personal friend of GW Bush there who got treatment. The doctor that pretty much wrote the software treatment dosages was my personal doctor.