Village Chronicles

Located at 4455 Weaver Pkwy. CDH Proton Center, A ProCure Center, is not only the state’s first proton therapy treatment center, but also just the ninth in the nation.

Proton therapy is an alternative to standard radiation for cancer treatment that precisely targets tumors, causing less damage to healthy tissue, resulting in fewer short- and long-term side effects for patients.

With many more patients who are candidates for proton therapy than there are treatment slots available, the opening of the Warrenville center has national importance. (Learn more about proton therapy and the center at www.procure.com/il).

Adjacent to the proton center, the new CDH Cancer Center is home to an array of comprehensive cancer care and services in a convenient outpatient location. Services at the cancer center include chemotherapy and infusion therapy in the CDH Infusion Center, advanced radiation treatment in the CDH Radiation Oncology Center, support groups and classes, and an American Cancer Society wig boutique, among other services.

The grand opening will feature guided tours of the proton and cancer centers, including the advanced technology and treatment rooms. The opening will also include a final chance before public access is restricted to see the 220-ton cyclotron that accelerates the protons at two-thirds the speed of light and steers them into a cancer destroying beam

Patients who have been treated with protons will also be in attendance, along with representatives from Central DuPage Hospital, ProCure Treatment Centers, Inc. and Radiation Oncology Consultants, the radiation oncology physician practice that will provide the clinical care at both facilities

Those present at the opening will include Jay Loeffler, M.D., chief of radiation oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital, William Hartsell, M.D., medical director of CDH Proton Center, A ProCure Center, Luke McGuinness, president and CEO of Central DuPage Hospital, Hadley Ford, director and CEO of ProCure Treatment Centers, Inc., Jim Spear, executive vice president and CFO of Central DuPage Hospital, and James R. Williams, president of CDH Proton Center, A ProCure Center.

The new facility is truly a feather in the cap of the City of Warrenville, a community that offers a plethora of complimentary facilities available to those who arrive to seek this cutting-edge medical treatment.