Welcome to the neutron therapy website

The site is a developing online resource devoted to neutron therapy. A new page has been added to show the worldwide centres and their patient throughput. Please review and advise any corrections or comments as requested in the note on that page.

The website is intended to be a resource for those interested in neutron therapy. It aspires to become a single access point to information about neutron therapy for radiation oncologists, radiotherapists, tumour specialists, medical physicists, radiobiologists and others specialising in cancer treatment.

It should also prove useful for patients, carers and the general reader with an interest in the treatment of certain tumour types with neutrons. If you want to know something of the history of neutron therapy, follow this link.

 

Neutrons for Therapy Meeting

held in Cape Town on October 12th 2009 -- for more information click here. If you thought that there were no vacancies for radiation oncologists to learn about neutron therapy, have a look at our news pages

 

• Visit the Neutron Therapy Discussion Board (this is a private access board)

The Board is for people with a professional interest in particle therapy. To apply for access to the Discussion Board email to inform(at)neutrontherapy.com - please use @ instead of (at). This is a spam saving device!

 

Opinions are divided on neutron therapy

To say that opinions are divided on neutron therapy may be an understatement. At Fermilab and in Seattle in the United States, at iThemba LABS in South Africa, at the Centres at Snezhinsk and Tomsk in Russia routine treatment of patients using neutron therapy continues. In Munich, the new research reactor FRM II at Garching has now treated 80 patients since it came on stream in June 2007 (visit the FRMII website). In Detroit, sadly, something to do with economics and direction (but not to do with medicine) has caused a withdrawal of service. The wonderful work by Dr Jeff Forman and his team treating principally patients with prostate cancer is now stopped. Happily, In the reports to the NEUDOS Meeting mentioned above, the Detroit team expressed optimism for the service to resume. The treatment facility at Essen in Germany is closed for major maintenance work - meanwhile patients are referred to the South African centre near Cape Town in an exciting collaboration.