Labs in Kyoto University, Institute for Integrated Radiation and Nuclear Science, Particle Radiation Oncology Research Center

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The lab creates new cancer treatments using quantum beams.

The Particle Radiation Oncology Lab has carried out boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) using neutron beams from the research reactor (KUR) in more than 580 cases, the most in the world. These results, together with the successful development of an accelerator-based BNCT irradiation system, were put into practical use in 2020, when accelerator-based BNCT for head and neck cancer began as a medical treatment at medical institutions. The lab's new mission is now "interdisciplinary, translational research aimed at developing new cancer treatments using quantum beams."

#BNCT #Cancer therapy #Quantum beams