Page 6 - Welcome to the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance Proton Therphy Center at the Seattle Northwest Hospital

Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (SCCA)
Proton Therapy Center

The Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (SCCA) Proton Therapy Center is one of a handful of centers in the country that treat
different kinds of tumors with proton therapy, an advanced form of radiation therapy. The Seattle center is the first to
be located in the Pacific Northwest, 1,000 miles from the nearest proton facility. The SCCA Proton Therapy Center is
partnered with and unites top physician experts in cancer from SCCA, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, UW
Medicine and Seattle Children’s Hospital. The Center is located on the campus of Northwest Hospital & Medical Center,
north of downtown Seattle.

Our 60,000-square-foot facility contains four treatment rooms designed to treat different types of tumors. Depending on
your diagnosis and tumor location, a specific room is selected that will achieve the most effective treatment approach
for you. At full capacity, the Center will be able to treat about 1,200 patients each year.

We’ve made every effort to create a warm, healing environment at our Center. In the lobby you can bask in front of the
fireplace as you wait. In the anesthesia bays children may be soothed by the colorful art of animals. From the exam
rooms to the CT Simulation room you will notice many fern designs throughout the Center. A native species to the
Northwest, the fern contains healing properties used by Native Americans in the region. The fern is also a powerful
symbol demonstrating transformation, beginning as a tightly-curled fiddlehead and spreading into a many-leafed frond.

SCCA Proton Therapy Center 1570 North 115th Street, Seattle, WA 98133 (877) 897-7628 1-1