The Prothep Berlin project is about proton therapy and about further enhancing health care services in Berlin by making this innovative and highly effective method of treating cancer available there.
New therapeutic opportunities
Proton therapy is a procedure in which the tumor is irradiated by a proton beam that destroys it more selectively and efficiently than conventional radiation procedures and causes less damage to surrounding body tissues. Click new therapeutic opportunities to read more.
Strong partners at national and local level
The proton therapy center is a private facility being developed in collaboration with a consortium of German hospitals headed up by Mannheim University Hospital together with the university hospital Ulm, another major university hospital in Germany.
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Medico-scientific consultants
The proton therapy center has close working relationships with a wide range of regional and supraregional medical and scientific entities and receives consultancy services from an Advisory Board of leading experts.
Proton therapy
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Prof. Dr. med. Frederik Wenz Director of Clinic for Radiation therapy and Radiation Oncology, Mannheim University Hospital |
“Radiation therapy is a widely acknowledged therapeutic option for patients with malignant tumors. Modern radiation procedures make it possible to minimize radiation in neighboring healthy tissue and this helps curb side-effects. Proton therapy is a modern and highly precise form of radiation therapy that is now being used increasingly throughout the world and will soon be available in Berlin.“