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Penn Medicine is going all in on proton therapy, a costly treatment that is unproven for most common cancers

The Philadelphia region is emerging as a hot spot for proton therapy, sitting at the heart of the nation’s highest concentration of centers clustered between New York and Washington, D.C.

A “VIP preview” of South Jersey's first proton therapy center at the Virtua Voorhees Hospital on Oct. 11, 2022.
A “VIP preview” of South Jersey's first proton therapy center at the Virtua Voorhees Hospital on Oct. 11, 2022.Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer