TAE Life Sciences aims to commercialize a cancer radiation treatment called Boron Neutron Capture Therapy. In BNCT, boron-10 is administered to tumors, irradiated with a beam of neutrons, and broken down into charged particles that kill cancer cells.
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A Surprise Application To Cancer
There’s a radiological medical technique called Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT), which is like a very targeted chemotherapy.
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The neutron beam is aimed at the cancer patient’s tumors for about 30 minutes, and is combined with a boron-based substance that is injected into the patient intravenously and accumulates in the cancer cells.
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BNCT is a particularly promising technique for treating cancers of the head and neck region that are difficult or impossible to treat using other types of therapy. The procedure has already been tested in Japan, the United States and other locales.
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TAE Life Sciences is the first to license TAE Technologies’ accelerator-based neutron beam technology for clinical investigation of Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT).