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	<description>Putting Our Heads Together</description>
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		<title>UK Cancer patient denied US funding for protons</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A cancer patient who has undergone 14 operations to remove brain and spine tumours is desperate to raise funds for life-saving treatment in the US. 
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		<title>The Pediatric Proton Foundation Launches Today in Virginia Beach</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[2007, Susan and Jim Ralston received the news every parent dreads: their 2-year-old son was diagnosed with spinal Ewing's sarcoma, a rare and aggressive cancer. This heart-breaking report was followed by a discovery from relatives that offered some comfort and hope: a relatively new radiation treatment, proton beam therapy. The Ralstons began a quest for more information and learned proton therapy could help their son improve his odds of beating cancer.]]></description>
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		<title>Appeal for £70m proton therapy machines to help cancer fight</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Woman whose son had to go to America for treatment asks minister to invest in same technology]]></description>
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		<title>Is High-Tech Cancer Therapy Too Costly?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 02:44:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Rianta Wimberly started going blind from an inoperable brain tumor, her mother Glenda got on the Web, found a radiation treatment called proton beam therapy and sent a desperate email to doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital, CBS News' Dr. Emily Senay reports. ]]></description>
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		<title>Doctors at Penn Medicine symposium praise proton radiation as a cancer treatment</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next year, a 220-ton particle accelerator — shipped from Belgium in January — will go online at the University of Pennsylvania's Abramson Cancer Center. When opened, the Roberts Proton Therapy Center will be the sixth such facility in the country, the only one in the mid-Atlantic region and the largest in the world.]]></description>
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		<title>NIU, hospital spar over cancer facility</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:23:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ A week after getting state approval to build a proton-therapy cancer-treatment center in West Chicago, Northern Illinois University officials on Wednesday blasted Central DuPage Hospital's plan to build another, arguing it is motivated by greed and the facility is not needed.]]></description>
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		<title>Taking sharper aim at cancer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:16:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Northern Illinois University won state permission Tuesday to build a $160 million proton-therapy cancer-treatment center in West Chicago, the first such facility in Illinois, but another is proposed only 6 miles away.]]></description>
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