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(NYT8) LOMA LINDA, Calif. -- Dec. 25, 2007 -- CANCER-PROTON-TREAT -- Harold Phillips undergoing treatment for prostate cancer in one of the treatment rooms at at Loma Linda Medical Center in Loma Linda, Calif., in November 2007. There is a new nuclear arms race under way -- in hospitals. Medical centers are rushing to turn nuclear particle accelerators, formerly used only for exotic physics research, into the latest weapons against cancer. Some experts say the push reflects the best and worst of the nation's market-based health care system, which tends to pursue the latest, most expensive treatments -- without much evidence of improved health -- even as soaring costs add to the nation's economic burden. (Marissa Roth/The New York Times)
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