The University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute is a cancer treatment and research center located in Jacksonville, Fla. It is the only facility in the Southeast U.S. that provides proton therapy, a unique form of radiation treatment that precisely targets tumors with minimal damage to normal healthy tissue. Proton therapy is effective for treating cancers located in the head and neck, brain, lung, pancreas, prostate, pituitary, central nervous system, base of the skull as well as Hodgkin lymphoma, sarcoma and cancer in children. www.floridaproton.org