March 4, 2019 The Maryland Proton Treatment Center was recently featured in the Baltimore Business Journal Cool Digs section, which features modern office spaces around Greater Baltimore. The article explains that the cyclotron, a 90-ton machine, produces a proton beam able to reach across five treatment rooms, roughly the wingspan [...]

February 18, 2019 Maryland Proton Treatment Center Radiation Therapist Racee Taylor was recently featured in an article in the American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT) Scanner, a bimonthly newsletter for radiation therapy professionals. In the article, titled “Mask Painting 101,” Racee talks about her work painting radiation therapy masks for patients. [...]

January 17, 2019 The Maryland Proton Treatment Center is proud to participate in several clinical trials, including the RadComp breast cancer research study featured in a new video. The understanding and treatment of cancer has advanced over the years due in large part to the additional knowledge clinical trials have [...]

January 15, 2019 The Maryland Proton Treatment Center (MPTC) has named Dr. Morton I. Rapoport and Dr. Harry C. Knipp, two highly regarded members of Maryland’s healthcare and business communities, to its board of directors. Dr. Rapoport served for nearly 20 years as president and CEO of the University of [...]

December 12, 2018 The Maryland Proton Treatment Center (MPTC), the first center in the region to use proton therapy to treat cancer, announced today that it has named Jaime LePage as senior operations manager. LePage will be responsible for the center’s patient experience, working closely with the entire MPTC team [...]

November 12, 2019 Maryland Proton Treatment Center CEO Leigh Howe spoke with the Baltimore Business Journal for their section “In the C-Suite.” "I want every person who is diagnosed with a hard tumor cancer to know that proton treatment is an option that is available to them," Howe told the [...]

October 30, 2018 The Maryland Proton Treatment Center (MPTC), the first center in the region to use proton therapy to treat cancer, announced today that it has named Laura Miller as chief administrative officer. Miller will be responsible for investor relations, regulatory affairs and marketing. With more than 30 years [...]

October 25, 2018 Maryland Proton Treatment Center Patient Chereez Nel, a 3-year-old girl from South Africa, was featured on ABC Baltimore (WMAR). Chereez has stage 3 undifferentiated soft tissue sarcoma cancer. She came to the Maryland Proton Treatment Center in the fall of 2018 and stayed at the Ronald McDonald [...]

October 23, 2018 The Maryland Proton Treatment Center announced today it will continue to expand its international partnerships through an agreement with Istanbul University to train physicians from Turkey. MPTC is the first U.S. proton center to form a partnership with Turkey. The Maryland Proton Treatment Center (MPTC) is currently [...]

October 8, 2018 The Maryland Proton Treatment Center (MPTC) is now offering deep-tissue external thermal therapy in combination with high-precision proton-beam radiotherapy as a potential way to boost survival chances for certain cancer patients. MPTC is the only center in the world to offer these two treatments at the same [...]