TitleCancer Neutron Capture Therapy [electronic resource] / edited by Yutaka Mishima
ImprintBoston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1996
Connect tohttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9567-7
Descript XXVII, 920 p. online resource

SUMMARY

There are many human cancers which actively synthesize specific characteristic proteins such as melanomas, thyroid cancer and squamous cell carcinoma. Many cancer researchers have of course tried to utilize this specific activity as a key for the selective treatment of cancers. In the past for example, the molecular hybrid compound of DOPA, a substrate of melanin, and nitrogen mustard N-oxide hydrochloride, a ctyotoxic anti-tumor drug, was synthesized as Melphalan and used to treat malignant melanoma. A major problem arose though in that it was soon found to be highly suppressive toward bone marrow and quite toxic while not being remarkably effective. Thus, malignant melanoma could not be cured by it. Such failure led us to develop a novel bimodal therapeutic system which includes the use of non-toxic potentially cytocidal chemicals which selectively accumulate within the cancer cells and which are converted by a controllable modality into an actively cytocidal element in situ. We can now non-surgically cure malignant melanoma and glioblastoma with our selective cancer treatment, neutron capture therapy (NCT); as can be found in this volume. Included are 124 papers on the latest breaking developments discussed at the Sixth International Symposium on NCT for Cancer held in Kobe during the late autumn of 1994


SUBJECT

  1. Medicine
  2. Dermatology
  3. Nuclear medicine
  4. Radiology
  5. Oncology
  6. Nuclear physics
  7. Heavy ions
  8. Hadrons
  9. Biophysics
  10. Biological physics
  11. Medicine & Public Health
  12. Oncology
  13. Dermatology
  14. Nuclear Medicine
  15. Ultrasound
  16. Biophysics and Biological Physics
  17. Nuclear Physics
  18. Heavy Ions
  19. Hadrons