Mayo Clinic’s Jacksonville campus will turn out to be the primary in america — and the one one within the Western Hemisphere — to supply carbon ion remedy, a cutting-edge remedy for hard-to-treat cancers, officers introduced Thursday.
At a information convention, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and First Girl Casey DeSantis joined Mayo Clinic President and CEO Dr. Kent Thielen to unveil the superior program, which is predicted to start treating sufferers in 2028.
The announcement builds on Mayo Clinic’s enlargement of most cancers care in Jacksonville with the opening of the 228,000-square-foot Duan Household Constructing in June 2025, designed to accommodate each proton and carbon ion remedy expertise. Proton remedy — one other superior type of radiation remedy — is predicted to start in 2027.
First Girl Casey DeSantis, a breast most cancers survivor, highlighted the impression of state help for progressive remedies and analysis, saying the brand new remedy will provide hope to sufferers “nowhere else within the Western Hemisphere.”
Within the meantime, Mayo Clinic sufferers can have entry to a variety of providers on the Jacksonville facility, together with photon remedy, immunotherapy, CAR-T cell remedy, and superior imaging, officers stated.
