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Loma Linda
loma Linda University Medical Center uses the world�s first proton accelerator built specifically to administer proton therapy in a medical environment. The synchrotron accelerator was built at Fermilab and shipped to Loma Linda, where the first patients were treated in 1990. Since then, more than 6,000 patients have been treated. Loma Linda researchers are now intensifying their efforts to apply proton therapy to breast cancer. Loma Linda