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A new radiation therapy treatment developed for head and neck cancer patients

Reply from: jafferkhan.uk@gmail . com
Date: 19 Aug 2007, 11:45
A new radiation therapy treatment developed for head and neck cancer patients

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.

* w w w .theanalystmagazine . com /august2007/109.html

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.





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