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The first clinical trial of BNCT in Argentina for the treatment of melanomas was performed in October 2003 [58] and since then several patients with cutaneous melanomas have been treated as part of a Phase II clinical trial at the RA-6 nuclear reactor in Bariloche.
No cancer therapy is without the risk of side effects. Neutron therapy is a very powerful nuclear scalpel that has to be utilized with exquisite care. For instance, some of the most remarkable cures it has been able to achieve are with cancers of the head and neck. Many of these cancers cannot effectively be treated with other therapies.
Radiation therapy for a patient with a diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, with radiation dose color-coded. It is estimated that half of the US' 1.2M invasive cancer cases diagnosed in 2022 received radiation therapy in their treatment program. [5]
As in diagnostic nuclear medicine, appropriate radionuclides can be chemically bound to a targeting biomolecule which carries the combined radiopharmaceutical to a specific treatment point. [3] It has been said that "α-emitters are indispensable with regard to optimisation of strategies for tumour therapy". [4]
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On April 11, 1986, a patient was to receive electron treatment for skin cancer on the face. The prescription was 10 MeV for an area of 7x10 cm. The operator was the same as the one in the March incident, three weeks earlier. After filling in all the treatment data she realized that she had to change the mode from X to E.
This is a type of targeted therapy which uses the physical, chemical and biological properties of the radiopharmaceutical to target areas of the body for radiation treatment. [3] The related diagnostic modality of nuclear medicine employs the same principles but uses different types or quantities of radiopharmaceuticals in order to image or ...
Carbon ion therapy (C-ion RT) was pioneered at the National Institute of Radiological Sciences (NIRS) in Chiba, Japan, which began treating patients with carbon ion beams in 1994. This facility was the first to utilize carbon ions clinically, marking a significant advancement in particle therapy for cancer treatment.