Russia May Start Particle Accelerator Cancer Treatments by 2020
Pavel Lobachev, the director of the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, said that his institute will do the accelerator in order to begin clinical trials of the latest boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) by 2020.NOVOSIBIRSK (Sputnik) — Russian scientists are planning to begin clinical trials of the latest boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT), which aims to destroy cancer tumors by a particle accelerator, by 2020, Pavel Lobachev, the director of the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, said Monday.
The director
of the Institute of Nuclear Physics also said that in the past year the
scientists have been able to reinforce the particle accelerator's capacity to
the level that allows to carry out the trials. According to Lobachev, the new
goal was to perfect the delivery of the boron compounds into the malignant
tumors.
Lobachev
expressed hope that BNCT program would launch in 2017 and added that it had
united a number of Russian research institutes specializing in chemistry,
biology, physics and medicine.
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