Medical practice makes multimillion-dollar move on cancer treatment device

Dr. Arie Dosoretz, managing partner at Advocate Radiation Oncology in Fort Myers, aims high when he says and his partners seek ways “to differentiate ourselves” from other cancer services practices.

Few decisions can validate that statement more than the practice’s recent announcement that it plans to bring a proton therapy center to the region. The state-of-the-art machine is the first of it’s kind on the west coast of Florida and one of only a few statewide. (Others are in Miami and Orlando.) Dosoretz declines to disclose the price for the center, which will be manufactured, installed and serviced by Belgium-based Ion Beam Applications S.A. A practice that makes this kind of investment, he says, typically spends more than $20 million.