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HEAVY METAL: Gregory Mercurio, senior vice president of radiation oncology for American Shared Hospital Services and CEO of Precision Radiation Oncology of Rhode Island, stands in front of a cyclotron, which generates particles that create the protons used in proton beam radiation therapy for cancer patients. The cyclotron must be surrounded by a vault, which together weigh 230,000 pounds.
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Proton radiation therapy center expects to boost cancer care in Rhode...

Dr. David Wazer has sent hundreds of cancer patients to Boston because the treatment they needed didn’t exist in Rhode Island. Brown University Health, where...
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