Mayo Clinic receives $100 million gift to expand radiation treatment center in Rochester

Mayo Clinic is receiving a $100 million gift to expand its Rochester facility for patients who need proton beam radiation treatment.

The gift from the Fred C. and Katherine B. Andersen Foundation of Bayport, Minn., will allow Mayo to nearly double appointments for the treatment, which delivers precise radiotherapy to cancerous tumors.

Mayo doctors use the technology in cases where tumors are near or within vital organs, as well as for young people whose organs are still developing, because the treatment can minimize radiation of surrounding healthy tissue.

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