The Falmouth Enterprise

The Falmouth Enterprise
Serving The Upper Cape Since 1895
Volume 120 Number 53
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Falmouth, Massachusetts
Will Take Job As
Administrator Of
300 Committee
By CHRISTOPHER KAZARIAN
The 300 Committee has tapped
a local talent, Assistant Town
Planner Jessica K. Erickson, as
its new administrator, replacing
outgoing administrator Margaret
Hough Russell, who is stepping
down in December.
The move was announced on
Saturday at a gathering to honor
Ms. Russell at the Bartolomei
Conservation Area on Sandwich
Road.
Ms. Erickson will start her new
job at some point next month following Town Meeting.
During her tenure with the
town Ms. Erickson has worked
closely with The 300 Committee,
which, the nonprofit’s president,
Leonard W. Johnson said, should
make this a seamless transition.
“We have brought a number
of transactions to the CPC [Community Preservation Committee]
for funding and each one of those
deals we’ve worked on with Jessica,” Mr. Johnson said. “Each one
has been more complicated than
the last so we’ve gotten to know
her very well in working with
her behind the scenes and working on the complexities to make
these land purchases happen.”
He also highlighted her professionalism, organization and
public speaking as qualities that
made her stand out from other
applicants. “She really does her
homework and is creative in working her way through regulations
and processes in these transactions,” Mr. Johnson added.
Throughout the interview process, which began in September,
the one quality that shone through
was “Ms. Erickson’s passion for
land conservation,” he said.
That was how she bested 27
candidates who put their names
in for consideration to run The
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Town Hall
Phone System
Fails Again
The voice mail system at town
hall has been down since yesterday, making it impossible for
residents to leave a message for
employees not at their desks.
Lynn Grant Major, director
of information technology, said
technicians from Mr. Telephone
were on site yesterday attempting
to fix the issue, which is covered
under the town’s maintenance
contract. The town purchased a
refurbished Definity Audix system in February that came with
a one-year warranty after the old
system failed in January.
If residents are unable to reach
an employee by phone, Ms. Major
recommended they try e-mail or
the person’s cellphone.
Meetings
No Place For Hate Committee—4
PM, today, School Administration
Building.
Beach Committee—7 PM, tonight, harbor master’s office.
Planning Board—7 PM, tonight,
town hall.
Conservation
Commission—7
PM, tomorrow, town hall.
Historical Commission—7 PM,
tomorrow, town hall.
Affordable Housing Committee—Thursday, 3 PM, town hall.
Veterans Council—Thursday, 4
PM, town hall.
Board of Appeals—Thursday,
6:30 PM, town hall.
Weather Forecast
This afternoon, it will be cloudy
with some rain, with the high around
55. Tonight conditions will be clear to
partly cloudy, with the low around 40.
Tomorrow, it will be partly sunny. The
high will be around 60, and the low
will be around 46. Extended forecast
for Thursday is increasing clouds,
with some rain at night. Highs will be
around 62, with the low around 43.
Air 55; Sea Water 59
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Two Sections - Sixteen Pages
One Dollar
Compromise Possible
On Transfer Station
Trash Pricing
George Hampson of North Falmouth explains the operation of
the Hayden Separator to visitors
at Saturday’s Cranberry Harvest
Festival. The separator, manufactured in the late 1800s in
Wareham by the Hayden Separator Co., was donated for use at
the festival along with a bin of
cranberries by Brian Handy of
Handy Cranberry Trust. James
Limberakis, 2 1/2, and his grandmother, Mary DeMello, both
from Falmouth, get a close look
at Crash the pig. The festival,
held under sunny skies, drew
crowds of visitors.
Photographs by
GENE M. MARCHAND/ENTERPRISE
Forum On Suicide And Depression
Points The Way To Help And Support
By BRENT RUNYON
Public Health suicide prevention program.
There was a strong showing of community supMental illness or substance abuse is present
port last night at the Community Forum on Suicide in about 85 percent of suicides, he said. Both are
and Depression, as about 35 Falmouth residents, treatable conditions, and while men are more likepublic health, public safety, and mental health ly to die by suicide, more women attempt suicide.
professionals discussed the difficult topics in the
“The hope is that by starting to break the silence
open at the Falmouth Public Library.
we can garner energy towards a solution,” said
“We have seen
Timothy H. Linan increase, an
eaweaver, chairuptick, in suicides
man of the Cape
in the Town of Faland Islands Suimouth,” said Falcide Prevention
mouth Police Chief
Coalition. He was
Anthony J. Riello,
joined by a panel
who opened the
of experts who ofevening with some
fered a variety of
personal remarks.
services and sup“During my 32port to the comyear career in law
munity.
enforcement, I’ve
One woman who
seen far too many
said her brother-in-law
killed
of these.” He said
himself in Falhe has personally
mouth two weeks
been touched by
ago, said, “I don’t
suicide when close
know who to go to
friends lost their
BRENT RUNYON/ENTERPRISE to get help.”
child to suicide.
Falmouth
Police
Chief
Anthony
Riello
addresses
members
of
RepresentaThere have been
five apparent sui- the community at the Community Forum on Suicide and De- tives from the
Massachusetts
cides in Falmouth pression last night.
Department
of
this year, four men,
between the ages of 22 and 54, and one woman, age Mental Health said that the easiest way to obtain
53. During the five-year period from 2004 through emergency counseling and intervention services is
2008, there were 10 suicides in Falmouth, accord- to call the 24-hour crisis line at 1-800-322-1366.
The Department of Mental Health also offers a
ing to the Department of Public Health.
Middle-aged men are the most likely to die by mobile crisis intervention team for people who are
suicide. “Men don’t ask for help, and that is the 22 or younger, which can be reached at the same
main reason they die by suicide,” said Alan HolmContinued on Page 10
lund, director of the Massachusetts Department of
By ELISE R. HUGUS
The Falmouth Board of Health
may have found a legal compromise on a hard-to-enforce regulation regarding the disposal of
commercial waste, but it needs
more information before making
a final decision.
In a legal opinion sent on Friday by Town Counsel Frank K.
Duffy Jr. to the board of health,
the town manager’s office, and
the Department of Public Works,
Mr. Duffy said commercial haulers could be allowed to pay municipal rates to the Upper Cape
Regional Transfer Station if the
town is not able to provide an annual minimum tonnage (AMT), as
required under its contract with
the SEMASS waste-to-energy incinerator.
According to Mr. Duffy, Falmouth’s residential trash collector, Allied Waste, pays SEMASS
$37 per ton, in addition to a perton overhead fee of $8.81 to the
UCRTS and a $9.19 per ton fee
charged by Massachusetts Coastal Railroad to transport trash to
Rochester.
If commercial haulers are allowed to pay the same rate, the
total would amount to approximately $54 per ton, as opposed to
the current total charge of $80 to
$98 per ton.
A June 1999 “side letter agreement” to Falmouth’s contract
allows the town to accept commercial waste at the transfer station in order to meet a minimum
requirement of 18,500 tons per
year, Mr. Duffy said. However, he
noted that “once the town’s AMT
is met, this provision expires and
SEMASS bills the hauler for all
commercial tonnage delivered to
the transfer station at the hauler’s individual rate.”
The legal staff at SEMASS
agreed with Mr. Duffy’s analysis,
provided that it applies to all licensed haulers. Mr. Duffy said
this option could be implemented
as soon as the town and SEMASS
set up a procedure for recordkeeping and billing. Under the
potential agreement, commercial
waste delivered to the UCRTS
cannot include construction and
demolition materials and must
be transported in packer trucks,
not trailers or roll-off containers.
Mr. Duffy’s opinion was requested after a meeting of the board of
health and board of selectmen on
September 29, in which the town
sought a solution to violations of
its refuse regulation. The regulation mandates flow control, a
mechanism by which the transfer
station is ensured the minimum
tonnage it needs to fulfill the Upper Cape towns’ contracts with
both SEMASS and the railroad.
Due to the decrease in tonnage
that commercial haulers brought
to the transfer station in recent
years, coupled with decreasing
residential trash disposal, Falmouth faces shortfalls in its contractual obligations. According
to the Falmouth Solid Waste Advisory Committee, Falmouth paid
more than $100,000 in penalties,
tipping, and railroad fees for services that it did not use last year,
and is set to pay even more this
year.
After months of hearings on the
issue, the board of health has not
been able to achieve compliance
with the regulation, which had
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Citing Lack Of Leadership,
Health Board Chair Resigns
By ELISE R. HUGUS
Frustrated by the lack of leadership and communication between town departments, board
of health Chairman James A. Vieira dropped off a letter of resignation at town hall this morning.
He had announced his intention to do so at a meeting last
night at town hall, while discussion of the town’s refuse regulation took up about half of the
meeting.
“This is my last meeting on this
board,” Mr. Vieira said. “There
are a lot of things going on in this
town that displease me immensely.”
For the past six months, the
board has been unable to enforce
the refuse regulation, which calls
for commercial haulers to bring
all of the waste they collect from
Falmouth to the Upper Cape Regional Transfer Station. Mr. Vieira said that issue has taken precedence over the other work that
the board is tasked with, such as
ensuring that people have safe
drinking water and septic systems.
In addition, he said that the
board has been stymied by poor
communication at the town level
in the case of emergencies, like
the weeklong boil water order in
June.
“There’s a whole range of issues and concerns I have about
the direction that the town is
going in and its present form of
leadership,” Mr. Vieira said. “I
think it’s appropriate to reevaluate our form of government and
I’m glad that will be taken up at
Town Meeting.”
Having served for nearly 20
years on the Falmouth Conservation Commission, and for 11
years on the finance committee,
Mr. Vieira came to the board of
health three and a half years ago.
This summer, he became chairman of the board.
“Community service has been
an important part of my life. As
Continued on Page 9
House Sets High Bar
For Energy Efficiency
By BRENT RUNYON
A new home under construction in East Falmouth is being
built to an exacting new building
standard, designed to be supertight with virtually no air leakage, which may make it one of the
most energy-efficient houses in
the United States.
“Upon completion, this will be
one of the top 10 energy-efficient
houses in the country,” said architect Steven Baczek of Reading. “The house is virtually a hot
air balloon.”
The standard of building
called passive house is based on
a European model that is becoming more popular in the United
States. There are currently only
14 certified passive houses in the
country.
The idea is to build a home
that is heated mostly with natural sunlight, super-insulated to
maintain the heat, and ventilated
with a mechanical system that
transfers out the stale air and
moves in fresh air, maintaining
ideal temperatures and humidity
levels within the house.
“If you talk to old-time builders, they’re going to say that you
don’t want to build a house too
tight, you want it to breathe,” Mr.
Baczek said. “I agree with that,
but where I differ from them
is when I say the house is going
to breathe, I predict and control where it’s going to breathe
from.”
Comparing the house to a human body, Mr. Baczek said where
the air and water enter and exit
the home are carefully designed
for maximum efficiency.
The house is so tight that the
only air leakage is from a maximum of five holes in the exterior,
equaling the total area of a threeby-five inch index card, he said.
The home will be heated by
large south-facing windows that
warm the house during the day,
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GENE M. MARCHAND/ENTERPRISE
The Passive House, under construction in East Falmouth, is part of a new movement in design and
building techniques, which might make it one of the most energy-efficient homes in the entire country when it is completed this spring.
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Suicide Forum
300 Committee Administrator
Continued from Page One
number.
“Sorrow which remains unspoken is the heaviest load to bear,”
quoted Maura Wilson, director of
the Samaritans of Cape Cod. The
Samaritans offer crisis lines with
volunteers available to listen
and talk. They can be reached at
508-548-8900.
She said that worldwide 800,000
people die by suicide each year,
each leaving between seven and
10 people who deeply feel the
impact of that loss.
Finding a way to reach out to
those who are depressed or suicidal is difficult, said Mr. Holmlund. One way is to train members of the community to identify
the signs of suicide and depression and teach them how to help
others seek help.
Next month, the Cape and Island Suicide Prevention Coalition will host a training session
in Falmouth for the public in
a program called QPR, which
stands for Question, Persuade
and Refer.
Mr. Holmlund explained that
anyone can take the one-and-ahalf hour session that will teach
them to ask the right questions,
persuade someone in crisis to
get help, and then refer them to
the appropriate place. That session will be held at a date and
time to be determined.
There are an average of 500
suicides in Massachusetts each
year, he said, which is three
times the number of homicides
each year.
On Cape Cod, there are an average of one-and-a-half times
more suicides than in the rest of
the state. In response to a question, Steven Jochim, director of
the Cape Cod & Islands Community Mental Health Center, said,
“I’m not sure why the numbers
are so high.”
For several members of the
community, there are simply not
enough services for the residents
of Falmouth. One woman said she
would like to see a meeting each
month in town where people
could get together and discuss
their experiences with depression and suicide, similar to an
Alcoholics Anonymous meeting.
But Maura Weir, the director of
the Cape and Islands Youth Suicide Prevention Project, said it
is not clear from research if it is
good for people who are suicidal
to have contact with others who
are suicidal.
Samm W. Carlton of Dodson
Way, Waquoit, said depression
should be discussed as a medical
issue that runs in families in the
same way that diabetes does.
“Maybe we can start really
coming out of the closet about
mental illness and depression,”
she said. She said she was encouraged by the turnout and support for the difficult topics. “This
is a forum to bring out [these topics] of the 15th century and into
the 21st century. This is like having diabetes, and this is a beginning.” The audience responded
with a loud round of applause for
those remarks.
Another member of the audience said depression is a topic
that many seniors in Falmouth
must deal with.
“It’s very isolating to be depressed and be a senior,” said
Elizabeth (Betty) Johnson of
Wood Neck Road, Falmouth. “We
retire to Falmouth, literally. We
withdraw. We get depressed, and
we don’t want to disturb our children with these thoughts.”
She said the idea of an anonymous meeting for seniors who
suffer from depression would be
welcome.
Continued from Page One
Photographs by GENE M. MARCHAND/ENTERPRISE
The house is designed to allow almost no air leakage. Air circulates through the house using mechanical ventilation, which keeps the home at an ideal temperature.
House Sets High Bar For Energy Efficiency
Continued from Page One
and by a mechanical ventilation system that moves the air
throughout the house using the
bathroom fans. A heat exchange
unit functions as an air conditioner in the summer and a heater in the winter, transferring the
energy from the hot or cool stale
air to the fresh air.
From the exterior, the home
looks just like any other construction site. A metal roof and photovoltaic solar panels are the only
indications that the home is intended to be energy-efficient.
Inside, although there are no
windows, doors, or mechanical
components installed yet, the
builders have already begun to
insulate the house with a rigid
foam insulation.
The Valle Group in East Falmouth is the contractor. Christian T. Valle toured the house
on Wednesday morning as sunlight dappled across the roof and
southern-facing facade.
When complete, the house will
have R-100 insulation in the attic,
R-60 in the walls, and R-70 in the
floor, he said. The construction is
actually a frame within a frame,
with 17 inches for insulation between the exterior wall and the
interior of the house. There will
be three layers of insulation
in the walls, a rigid foam layer,
closed cell foam, and blown in fiberglass insulation, he said.
Construction began in August,
and will be completed this spring,
Mr. Valle said. The builders are
currently awaiting a special order of triple-glazed windows from
a Canadian company called Thermotech windows, which will allow
sunlight and heat into the home,
but minimal heat to escape.
The interior of the home is a
simple two-story structure, with
one central staircase, and an
open floor plan on the first floor
and bedrooms upstairs.
It can be about 20 to 25 percent
more expensive to build a passive
house, Mr. Baczek said, but the
design is not without benefits.
When complete, Mr. Baczek
said, the home will use 80 percent
less energy than a similarly sized
house. Add to that the photovoltaic solar panels and solar-heated
water, and the home is expected
to be a zero net energy home.
The three-bedroom, two-anda-half bath-house will have 1,900
square feet of finished space with
no basement. The house is built
on a slab with a crawl space filled
with insulation.
Christian Valle, project manager for The Valle Group, which is
building the Passive House, points out the 17-inch space between
the outer and inner wall, which will be filled with three different
kinds of insulation.
A similarly outfitted house
might cost $300 per square foot to
build, he said, while the passive
house costs an estimated $350 per
square foot.
Michael B. Duclos, a consultant in passive houses from Stow,
created a computer model of the
house to test the heat loss and
mechanical ventilation system
before construction.
During construction, the house
is tested for air-tightness by using
a blower door test. On Tuesday,
the blower door test showed only
a few leaking spots.
“We’re building and testing it as
we go,” said Mr. Duclos. To reach
the passive house standard, the
builders and engineer must show
that the house met the standard
at each construction phase.
The building standard has
gained popularity in Europe
over the past 10 years, according
to Paul Eldrenkamp, a passive
house consultant in Boston. In
Austria, he said, 25 percent of all
new construction is being built to
the passive house standard.
Mr. Eldrenkamp, founder of the
Boston-based Byggmeister, which
is the Scandinavian word for master builder, said he took the first
course ever offered in passive
house consulting in the United
States in 2008.
There are only 14 completed
passive houses currently in the
country, with another 50 to 60
homes in the planning or construction phase, he said.
The key to a passive house
is the heat ventilation system,
which passes the heat from the
outgoing stale air to the incoming
fresh air.
“In a well-designed system, it
can recover 75 percent of the heat
from the exhaust air,” Mr. Eldrenkamp said.
Needless to say the house will
not have a fireplace. There will
also be no gas burning devices.
Even the clothes dryer is a condensing dryer that has no vent
to the outside to maintain the air
envelope within the house, Mr.
Baczek said.
Buildings are responsible for
48 percent of greenhouse gas
emissions annually and 76 percent of all electricity generated
by United States power plants
goes to supply the building sector, according to data from the
United States Energy Information Administration provided by
the Passive House Institute of the
United States.
Passive house certification carries no tax incentives or rebates,
but the house will be a tier four,
Energy Star home, which qualifies the owner for some rebates,
Mr. Baczek said.
The home is on Upalong Road
in Davisville on Bournes Pond
and can be seen from the Menauhant Beach area.
The 5.7-acre parcel and existing cottage were purchased in
2009 by Daniel Kahn of Needham
for $1.19 million in 2009, according to town records.
One drawback might be that
the house relies so much on mechanical ventilation, that when
the power goes out, the air will
become stale. The solution is
simple. “Just open a window,” Mr.
Valle said.
Offers Course
On Flip Video
And Social Media
Jr.Tech Inc. is offering a course
called Flip Video and Social Media on November 6, from 1 to
4:30 PM at the Upper Cape Cod
Regional Technical School in
Bourne. The class is for students
in grades 5 through 9.
Students learn and test out
all of the camera functions,
learn how to use the movie-making software that comes with
the camera, and how to create
a mini-movie. Students will be
shown how to save it for use on
a computer, television, or social media site. The tiny digital
camera allows them to capture a
hobby, sport, or family memory
and share it with others.
The course cost is $49.
For more information, call
774-994-2097; or go to www.juniortech.org.
The Falmouth Enterprise
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
GENE M. MARCHAND/ENTERPRISE
A crowd gathers along the bank of the bog across the street from the cranberry festival on Saturday
to watch the wet harvest.
300 Committee, an organization
which is celebrating 25 years of
protecting and maintaining open
space in Falmouth.
Originally from Iowa, Ms. Erickson first came to the Cape in 2002
as an AmeriCorps volunteer. At
that time she was three years removed from college, having graduated with a bachelor’s degree in
communications and graphic design from Buena Vista University
in Storm Lake, Iowa, in 1999.
Following her stint with AmeriCorps, Ms. Erickson remained
in Massachusetts, earning her
master’s degree in urban and environmental policy and planning
from Tufts University in 2006.
At that time she was hired as
Falmouth’s assistant town planner, a position originally funded
entirely with Community Preservation Act money. For the first
year and half, she assisted the
CPC in its mission, but that role
expanded to assist the Falmouth
Historical Commission and Falmouth Historic Districts Commission after her salary became
partially funded out of the town’s
operating budget.
She said she has enjoyed her
time with the town, finding it rewarding to work in municipal
planning. “In a lot of cases you
can see the impact of a project
or program and it is really gratifying work,” she said. “It is also
challenging because a lot of coordination is required and you
have varying opinions across all
spectrums on whether something
should go forward.”
Because much of her work was
with the CPA, which devotes a
portion of its funding to projects related to open space, Ms.
Erickson spent significant time
working with The 300 Committee,
which brought forth a number of
proposals related to the acquisition of land.
She highlighted two in particular, the 1.9-acre purchase of the
Haddad parcel on Menauhant
Beach in 2007 and this year’s purchase of the 21-acre parcel on
Spring Bars Road. Both required
months and months of negotiations, she said, and collaboration
and input from the CPC, The 300
Committee, Town Manager Robert L. Whritenour Jr., Assistant
Town Manager Heather B. Harper and Falmouth Town Counsel
Frank K. Duffy Jr.
“By the time these got to Town
Meeting they were presented as a
package. You go through the process and see something you may
not have thought was possible
initially and it turns out to be
successful,” she said.
She said she is most proud of
her work on the town’s purchase
of the Spring Bars Road parcel as
it came out of a charge from the
selectmen to the CPC to use its
money to find a project that could
benefit multiple constituencies,
from affordable housing to recreation to protecting open space.
She said she will miss the opportunity to assist the CPC in
helping to move that project for-
Jessica Erickson
ward, but in her new role as administrator of The 300 Committee
she will be able to assist in shaping the Spring Bars Road parcel
in other ways.
CPC Chairman Barbara P. Schneider expressed a mixture of
emotions in The 300 Committee’s
announcement. “I’m happy for
her, but so sad for us,” Dr. Schneider said. “She has been one
of the only full-time community
preservation administrators in
the state and she has helped craft
what this job is. I’m having a hard
time figuring out how we will go
forward from here, but we will.”
Dr. Schneider was present with
Ms. Erickson—the two were having pizza after attending the Falmouth Finance Committee meeting—when she received the call
from The 300 Committee offering
her the job on Tuesday night.
“The 300 Committee won’t find
anyone more adept at multitasking and keeping a group of
strong-minded people on task,”
Dr. Schneider said. “She’s never
shown any sign of being flustered
no matter how much has been
thrown at her in a given week.”
As to what she hopes to accomplish with The 300 Committee
Ms. Erickson focused on maintaining and preserving the open
space Falmouth currently has.
She praised Ms. Russell for her
work in focusing on stewardship,
amassing 65 stewards who have
been playfully called “Margaret’s
militia.”
“Now that we have so much
open space we need to pay attention to make sure it is properly
maintained,” Ms. Erickson said.
She also wants to ensure openspace purchases remain as such,
requiring conservation restrictions that will need to be coordinated with town officials.
As she prepares for this new
career challenge, Ms. Erickson
was delighted she will be able to
continue helping Falmouth as it
moves toward the future. “Land
preservation has been one of my
interests for a very long time. It is
one of the reasons why I pursued
my master’s degree because I’m
concerned with the way a community looks,” she said. “I feel
this is a great opportunity to continue working in Falmouth and
in preservation planning with
a nonprofit that is well-established.”
New Technology Rounds Out
Cape Oncology Treatment
By JAMES KINSELLA
When DeWitt P. Davenport’s
mother needed to get treatment
for her cancer 20 years ago, she
traveled to and from Boston: not
because she wanted to, but because she had no choice.
In the years since, as Cape Cod
Hospital in Hyannis has expanded its available cancer treatments, more Cape Codders have
had a choice that Mr. Davenport’s
mother did not have.
Now, courtesy of a $500,000 gift
from the Davenport Companies
of South Yarmouth to Cape Cod
Healthcare, the parent corporation of Cape Cod Hospital, Cape
residents who need cancer treatments will not have to choose at
all.
Last week, Cape Cod Healthcare announced that it is prepared to offer stereotactic radiosurgery, a way to precisely target
tumors with large doses of radiation in places that may not lend
themselves to conventional surgery, such as in the brain or close
to the spine or a lung.
Unlike radiation treatments
for other cancers, which can take
weeks of daily treatment, stereotactic radiosurgery takes place in
a single treatment.
The radiation dose itself averages 15 minutes. A patient can arrive in the morning and leave the
same day.
Results can range from shrinkage of the tumor to the cessation
of further tumor growth.
Cape Cod Healthcare officials
described the new capability for
stereotactic radiosurgery as the
last important component of the
hospital’s state-of-the-art radiation oncology program.
Michael Lauf, president of
Cape Cod Hospital, said the Hyannis facility now can offer a
range of radiation cancer treatments equivalent to those found
in metropolitan areas.
Hospital officials say fast radiation treatments such as stereotactic radiosurgery improve accuracy and patient comfort.
The radiosurgery also is noninvasive, requiring only minor
incisions for head surgeries, resulting in quicker recovery. The
treatment also is painless, usually being performed on an outpatient basis.
Although the radiation treatment itself can occur in 15 minutes, Dr. Robert McAnaw said,
planning and preparation to
treat one patient can take weeks.
He placed the cost of stereotactic
radiosurgery for one patient at
slightly more than $10,000.
Hospital oncologists will work
with the hospital’s physics department to target the tiny area
of a tumor without hurting surrounding healthy tissue.
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