JACKSONVILLE, FL -- There's a celebration of sorts at Shands Jacksonville. The University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute is celebrating its first anniversary.
It's the only proton therapy center in the Southeast and only one of five in the entire country.
It is big. Three stories tall. A massive machine from the front where it rotates around the patient; and from the back where it looks like something out of a spaceship.
Sherry Robbins is undergoing treatment for head and neck cancer. "I feel like I'm in Star Wars. They talk about the beam in the other room. It's bizarre."
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Thursday, October 18, 2007
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