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PC treatment: Prostatectomy or Proton Beam Therapy
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@bens1
The problem recommending the Meridian machine in 2023 could’ve been the fact that the company that made it was Having major financial problems and went out of business, actually bankrupt, in late 2023. In 2024 another company took over the Meridian equipment and has continued to improve it. There was a time in there that it was not being supported at all, and that did cause some problems.
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@jeffmarc
In the beginning of 2023, when I was treated, it was being recommended and its built in MRI functionality and its adaptive planning capabilities were being treated by many oncologists, and other experts, as important. Viewray's bankruptcy was never about the technology. It was about managing and matching accounts payables/receivables to the sales pipeline. Hospitals were still using it and supporting its safe operation until they could no longer do it because of software upgrades that were needed. Thereafter, the new company that provided support for the machines used original software engineers from Viewray. They charged $1 million per year for support and hospitals are now considering or have already bought, the Electa Unity as an alternative, for Financial reasons.
Hospitals are a business with a heart. Their patients, through the insurance companies, government programs, pharmaceutical companies and charity, support those hospitals. To this day, there is no history that anybody or any entity, have made the decisions necessary to straighten out what is a complicated, conflicting, messy health care industry. I applaud all those that are willing to do their best for all parties but particularly for those that have the patients in mind first.