Possible Austin interchange company focuses on proton cancer treatments

Business
By Ben Sutherly
Oct 29, 2009
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The company said to be behind the $170 million cancer treatment center announced Wednesday, Oct. 28, for the Austin Boulevard interchange got its start in 1993 by engineers who had helped pioneer the first hospital-based proton beam cancer treatment center.

Based in San Bernardino, Calif., Optivus Proton Therapy, Inc. boasts on its Web site, optivus.com, of an unmatched record of daily patient treatments: up to 175 in one day. The Web site claims the Optivus system has treated nearly 13,000 patients in a clinical setting.

The company bills proton beam therapy as the most precise, painless and noninvasive form of radiation therapy used today.

Such procedures typically cost about $60,000, according to Dan Slane, a commercial real-estate developer in Columbus who has been trying to establish a similar proton cancer treatment facility in Dublin, but has encountered difficulties with that project’s financing.

It wasn’t immediately clear how Optivus would finance the Miami Twp. project. Optivus’ CEO, Jon Slater, could not be reached for comment.

There are six operating proton centers nationwide,. The nearest is the Midwest Proton Radiotherapy Institute at Indiana University in Bloomington. There are five more under construction or under development, according to the National Association for Proton Therapy.

Contact this reporter at (937) 225-7457 or bsutherly@DaytonDailyNews.com.

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