The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, said it has received a $100 million gift to help establish a multisite proton beam therapy program.
Long-time patient and philanthropist Richard Jacobson made the gift, which will allow the Mayo Clinic to develop an 110,000-sq-ft proton beam facility on its Rochester campus, as well as another proton beam facility on its Phoenix campus. Combined, the Rochester and Phoenix facilities have a total cost of more than $400 million, according to Mayo.
The Mayo Clinic estimates that 1,240 patients annually will be treated with proton beam therapy in the Rochester facility, and about 2,480 patients will be treated when both the Rochester and Phoenix facilities are fully operational by early 2016.
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