Construction could begin as early as this summer on a $96 million cancer treatment center on Danbury’s west side that will use advanced proton therapy to minimize damage to healthy tissue.
“We have an entrepreneurial team working very ambitiously to get our details together so we can move forward,” said Drew Crandall, spokesperson for Danbury Proton, a physician group that received state approval in January to operate what would be Connecticut’s second proton therapy center. “Our team has been going full speed forward, but there is a lot of work to do behind the scenes.”
The state’s first proton therapy center, a joint project by Hartford HealthCare and Yale New Haven Health in Wallingford, broke ground last summer and is scheduled to open by the end of 2026. That facility will be the only one of its kind between New York and Boston.