Date: 2015-04-10
Type of information: Services contract
Compound: proton therapy system
Company: IBA (Belgium) Baptist Health South Florida (USA - FL)
Therapeutic area: Cancer - Oncology
Type agreement: services contract
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Details: * On March 31, 2015 , IBA (Ion Beam Applications S.A.), the world’s leading provider of proton therapy solutions for the treatment of cancer, announced that it will sign a contract with Baptist Health South Florida for the purchase, installation and maintenance of a proton therapy system at Miami Cancer Institute, currently under construction. IBA will equip Miami Cancer Institute with its Proteus®PLUS three-gantry room configuration including next generation Pencil Beam Scanning capability. The $80 million contract for combined equipment and services, including long-term operations and maintenance, supplied by IBA, is part of Baptist Health’s $430 million investment in the future of cancer care with its state-of-the-art Miami Cancer Institute. The Institute consolidates under one roof, outpatient clinical services, a dedicated cancer research facility and signature technology platforms, including the first proton therapy center in South Florida. It is expected to treat its first patient with proton therapy in 2017.
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