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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. 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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