Originally Posted by
siku
if someone can explain me few things i might donate:
1. UK has equipment and facilities for the treatment he needs. it cant possibly be cheaper/safer to fly to USA for the treatment
2. 6 other european countries besides UK also have the equipment needed for proton therapy. why USA instead of these countries?
just seems weird
Erth was correct.
but due to the treatment time frame, and the waiting list for the machines, extensive spread of the cancer we were told that they would not accept him for treatment and we would have to undergo traditional radiotherapy here in the UK.
And so then they looked into treatment in America.
Source.