Most head and neck cancers that recur locally after prior full-dose
conventional radiation therapy respond to Boron Neutron Capture
Therapy suggests the recent Finnish study.
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Dr. Heikki Joensuu, professor of radiotherapy and oncology at the
University of Helsinki, considers the results clinically significant
and very interesting: They open a new field for BNCT, since thus far
BNCT has been evaluated only in the treatment of some brain tumours.