Past Event
Tuesday, June 16, 2015, 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Proton Therapy Open House
Scripps Proton Therapy Center, 9730 Summers Ridge Road, Mira Mesa
Cost: Free
Local residents can get an up-close look at the region’s only proton treatment facility for cancer care, as Scripps Health will host a special open house at the Scripps Proton Therapy Center.
The free event will include tours of the facility, which opened for patient care last year, 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. Less radiation to healthy tissue lowers the probability of side effects and treatment-related cancers.