The Texas company that sells the cancer-fighting Radiance 330 Proton Therapy System machines is scheduled to be auctioned off today after a short delay, Dow Jones Daily Bankruptcy Review reported today. In a new sale timeline signed on Friday, Judge Barbara Houser set an Aug. 20 sale hearing to look over the auction-winning offer for ProTom International Inc.'s struggling operations. The company's machines beam a stream of protons onto cancerous tumors more precisely than X-ray beams, but officials have struggled to finish their first U.S. project at a Michigan hospital. ProTom is up for sale after it filed for bankruptcy on May 12 while trying to finish the debut project for McLaren Health Care Corp., which operates a dozen hospitals in Michigan. The project, which was supposed to be ready to treat patients in December 2012, was only about 85 percent complete at the time of the filing, according to documents filed in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Dallas.
