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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.
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Selective Thermal Neutron Capture Therapy of Cancer Cells Using their Specific Metabolic Activities—Melanoma as Prototype
Pages 1-26
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Recent Results with Liposomes as Boron Delivery Vehicles for Boron Neutron Capture Therapy
Pages 27-36
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Preparation of Epidermal Growth Factor Conjugates Aimed for Boron Neutron Capture Therapy
Pages 37-42
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Epidermal Growth Factor (EGF) as a Potential Targeting Agent for Delivery of Boron to Malignant Gliomas
Pages 43-48
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Boron Neutron Capture Therapy Against Tumor Cells with Overexpression of the EGF-Receptor
Pages 49-56
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Table of contents (126 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Cancer Neutron Capture Therapy
- Editors
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- Y. Mishima
- Copyright
- 1996
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag US
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-4757-9567-7
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4757-9567-7
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-306-45307-6
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-4757-9569-1
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXVII, 920
- Topics