[ RadSafe ] Fwd: After many years, some news on BNCT: Japan-IAEA cooperation

[Chris Alston]

Jaro

As to GBM, I don't know.  But protons are now in (relatively) widespread
use, in the USA, and, if they're good for anything, it's head and neck
cancer.  Here's a representative site: http://www.pennprotontherapy.org/ .
Fortheir part, the Japanese are also putting a good bit of money into
"heavy-ion" RT.

P.S.  There is a paper in this month's, or last month's, *J Nucl Med* about
a radiopharmaceutical therapy (tx) for GBM, I believe.

Cheers
ca
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jaro Franta <jaro_10kbq at videotron.ca>
Date: Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 1:55 PM
Subject: [ RadSafe ] After many years, some news on BNCT: Japan-IAEA
cooperation
To: "The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) Mailing List" <
radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu>
According to the bulletin,
"BNCT, which is currently in clinical trials and is showing promise for
treatment of skin, neck and salivary gland cancers."
Oddly, no mention of glioblastoma (GBM), which has traditionally been the
focus of BNCT.
Are all other BNCT research programs around the world dead now ?
International BNCT symposia appear to have stopped as well.
Maybe all those dreadful cancers have been cured?
https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/pressreleases/iaea-okayama-university-agree-
to-cooperate-on-promising-cancer-therapy

Jaro