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By Akira Matsumura From 1992, I participated in clinical research on neutron capture therapy (BNCT) under Professor Hatanaka of Teikyo University at the JRR-2 reactor in Tokai-village, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI). When BNCT was performed, a boron drug was administered to the patient at midnight the day before at a hospital in Saitama […]

Title: Perspectives in Boron Neutron Capture Therapy: accelerating a new hope in the fight of cancer With great joy, we would like to invite you to the Second BNCT International Webinar. The speaker will be Ignacio Porras, Professor and researcher in Atomic, Molecular and Nuclear Physics at the University of Granada, Spain. The webinar will […]

By Woo Kim What might the future of boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) look like? A table-top accelerator? A treatment room where only cancer cells are targeted and soft tissue remains unharmed, reminiscent of the medical device in the movie “Elysium” (2013)? Or perhaps an environment filled with automated devices, allowing for high-throughput treatments? Whatever […]

Title: Personal experience during the clinical commissioning of a BNCT facility and future prospects With great joy, we would like to invite you to the First BNCT International Webinar. Our First speaker will be Naonori Hu, Medical Physicist from the Kansai BNCT Medical Center, Japan. The webinar will be held virtually (zoom platform), on Friday […]

June 24-28, 2024, Kraków, Poland The biennial International Congress on Neutron Capture Therapy (ICNCT) is the most important event in BNCT and this jubilee 20th edition will take place for the first time in Kraków, Poland, from Monday, June 24 through Friday, June 28, 2024. Find all the information and updates on the ICNCT20 website […]