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Home > Health > Faculty, staff and students invited to IUB’s Cyclotron Facility April 7By Malinda Lingwall | |
| Imagine having the ability to treat cancer using radiotherapy without debilitating side effects. Physicians at the Midwest Proton Radiotherapy Institute (MPRI) can target tumors with 1-millimeter accuracy using either a fixed horizontal proton beam or a 360-degree rotating gantry. Because of this precision, proton therapy often significantly improves the patient’s quality of life while effectively treating the disease.
Learn about the MPRI, IUs cyclotron and Jill’s House when the IU Cyclotron Facility (IUCF) opens its doors to the IU community on Monday, April 7. IUCF will host an open house for faculty, staff and students from 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., giving visitors the rare opportunity to see the cyclotron up close and to tour the new proton therapy facility before it opens to its first patients in June.
Twenty-minute tours of the new proton therapy clinic will be offered, as well as a 40-minute tour of both the cyclotron facility and the clinic. Tours will depart approximately every five minutes. | |
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