[PHI Redacted]I am amazed that Medicare would consider removing this effective prostate cancer treatment from its payment list! [PHI Redacted], along with the thousands of other prostate cancer survivors who were cured by proton beam therapy (without the side effects of incontinence, impotency and cancer reoccurance associated with other prostate cancer treatments) over the past 15 years that proton therapy has been approved and provided would be very concerned about future prostate cancer patients not having the proton beam therapy option.

The negative comments/critiques I have read in these public comments seem to have come from individuals in the medical field whose livelihood depends on the income they derive from providing treatments other than proton beam therapy! Comments from those sources should be suspect! Taxpayers should be concerned that, if Medicare does not provide payment for the proton beam treatment for men in the future who have prostate cancer, they will be paying taxes to provide medical treatment to deal with the side effects that often result from prostate treatments other than proton treatment. We all know men who have suffered impotency, incontinence and cancer recurrance after surgery or radiation seeds. Compare the side effects/after effects of prostate cancer patients treated with proton versus other prostate cancer treatments. Don''t allow proton beam tharapy to be derailed by professional jealousy or greed! Dr. Dale Fitzner