BNCT for locally recurrent head and neck cancer: Preliminary clinical experience from a phase I/II trial at Tsing Hua Open-Pool Reactor

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 69, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1803-1806

  Wang, L W ^a,d   Wang, S J ^a,d   Chu, P Y ^a,d   Ho, C Y ^a,d   Jiang, S H ^b   Liu, Y W H ^b   Liu, Y H ^b   Liu, H M ^b   Peir, J J ^b   Chou, F I ^b   Yen, S H ^a,d   Lee, Y L ^a   Chang, C W ^a,d   Liu, C S ^a,d   Chen, Y W ^a,d   Ono, K ^c  

^a TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Boron neutron capture therapy; Boronophenyalalnine; Head and neck cancer; PET scan

Indexed keywords

BORON CONCENTRATIONS; BORON NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY; BORONOPHENYALALNINE; CLINICAL EXPERIENCE; HEAD-AND-NECK CANCER; PET SCAN; PHASE I;

BORON; BORON COMPOUNDS; LAKES; PATIENT TREATMENT;

DISEASES;

4 BORONOPHENYLALANINE; BORON; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; AGED; ALLERGY; ALOPECIA; ARTICLE; CANCER PAIN; CASE REPORT; COLLIMATOR; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DISTANT METASTASIS; DOSIMETRY; DYSPHAGIA; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; MALE; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY; NEUTRON RADIATION; PATIENT POSITIONING; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DERMATITIS; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION PNEUMONIA; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIATION SICKNESS; RECURRENT CANCER; RELATIVE BIOLOGIC EFFECTIVENESS; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR REGRESSION; TUMOR VOLUME; VOMITING;

AGED; BORON NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; TAIWAN;

EID: 80055083009     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: 18729800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2011.03.008     Document Type: Article

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