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High-Tech, 220-Ton, Cancer-Fighting Machine Arrives In Irving

Publication: KTVT-TV, Dallas-Fort Worth

Workers were busy Wednesday moving and installing a huge, high-tech piece of cancer fighting equipment at the new Center for Proton.

The 220 ton cyclotron is all about speed — it can accelerate a proton to nearly the speed of light. But its journey from the Port of Houston, where it arrived from Belgium where it was made, to Irving was made at a crawl aboard two huge flat bed trailers.

Read the full story at KTVT-TV, Dallas-Fort Worth.

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