Texas teen becomes 3,000th patient to receive cancer treatment at Las Colinas therapy center

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A 16-year-old from Midland celebrated a major milestone in his cancer fight. He’s become the 3000th patient to receive a specialized type of radiation at the Texas Center for Proton Therapy in Las Colinas. “I feel really good. I feel closer back to myself.'

A 16-year-old from Midland celebrated a major milestone in his cancer fight. He’s become the 3000th patient to receive a specialized type of radiation at the Texas Center for Proton Therapy in Las Colinas. "I feel really good. I feel closer back to myself."He’s become the 3000th patient to receive a specialized type of radiation at the Texas Center for Proton Therapy in Las Colinas.

Just over a year ago, the 16-year-old was thriving as sound director for a rodeo circuit in Midland until a diagnosis changed everything. "Cook Children’s said he’s got two tumors: one’s a baseball, one’s the size of a ping-pong ball. We’re going to take them out," recalled father West Huggins. "We’re going to do it. There wasn’t any question."

 

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