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| In first, Israeli start-up removes economic barriers to cancer treatment |
| 2020-02-13 |
| [Jerusalem Post] Local med-tech start-up P-Cure is working hard to break economic barriers so that proton radiation therapy becomes accessible to all eligible cancer patients. Based in Shilat, near Modi’in, P-Cure makes the most advanced type of proton therapy available. "We truly believe that this is a new era of radiation therapy of cancer," CEO and founder Michael Marash told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday. The company, he explained, has developed technology that "unprecedentedly removed economic barriers prohibiting proton therapy use in the mainstream clinical practice." Marash highlighted that P-Cure’s manufactured proton therapy solution "is the only 360-degrees gantry-less proton therapy system that fits into any operating radiation oncology department." Proton therapy is the most technologically advanced method of delivering radiation treatments to cancerous tumors that is available today. "The unique characteristics of how protons interact within the human body allow it to deliver curative radiation doses while reducing doses to healthy tissues and organs, resulting in fewer complications and side effects than standard radiation therapy," Marash explained. "Understanding how proton therapy works provides patients and physicians with insight into the clinical advantages of this treatment modality." |
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