Past Event
Tuesday, August 25, 2015, 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Proton Therapy Open House
Scripps Proton Therapy Center, 9730 Summers Ridge Road, Mira Mesa
Cost: Free
San Diego County residents can get an up-close look at the region’s only proton treatment facility for cancer care as Scripps Health hosts an open house at Scripps Proton Therapy Center with tours of the facility, complimentary refreshments and appetizers, and a presentation on proton therapy by the center’s medical director, Carl Rossi, M.D.
Proton therapy is an extremely precise form of external beam radiation treatment that spares more healthy tissue surrounding a patient’s tumor than convention X-ray radiation. Info: 800-727-4777.