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ArticleRadiation and environmental biophysics2013

Boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) for liver metastasis in an experimental model: dose–response at five-week follow-up based on retrospective dose assessment in individual rats.

Emiliano C C Pozzi, Verónica A Trivillin, Lucas L Colombo, Andrea Monti Hughes, Silvia I Thorp, Jorge E Cardoso, Marcela A Garabalino, Ana J Molinari, Elisa M Heber, Paula Curotto and 5 more

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Article in Radiation and environmental biophysics, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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15 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Emiliano C C Pozzi
Verónica A Trivillin
Lucas L Colombo
Andrea Monti Hughes
Silvia I Thorp
Jorge E Cardoso
Marcela A Garabalino
Ana J Molinari
Elisa M Heber
Paula Curotto
Marcelo Miller
Maria E Itoiz
Romina F Aromando
David W Nigg
Amanda E Schwint
Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica · ARConsejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas · ARUniversity of Buenos Aires · ARIdaho National Laboratory · USNational University of General San Martín · AR

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Boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) was proposed for untreatable colorectal liver metastases. Employing an experimental model of liver metastases in rats, we recently demonstrated that BNCT mediated by boronophenylalanine (BPA-BNCT) at 13 Gy prescribed to tumor is therapeutically useful at 3-week follow-up. The aim of the present study was to evaluate dose–response at 5-week follow-up, based on retrospective dose assessment in individual rats. BDIX rats were inoculated with syngeneic colon cancer cells DHD/K12/TRb. Tumor-bearing animals were divided into three groups: BPA-BNCT (n = 19), Beam only (n = 8) and Sham (n = 7) (matched manipulation, no treatment). For each rat, neutron flux was measured in situ and boron content was measured in a pre-irradiation blood sample for retrospective individual dose assessment. For statistical analysis (ANOVA), individual data for the BPA-BNCT group were pooled according to absorbed tumor dose, BPA-BNCT I: 4.5–8.9 Gy and BPA-BNCT II: 9.2–16 Gy. At 5 weeks post-irradiation, the tumor surface area post-treatment/pre-treatment ratio was 12.2 ± 6.6 for Sham, 7.8 ± 4.1 for Beam only, 4.4 ± 5.6 for BPA-BNCT I and 0.45 ± 0.20 for BPA-BNCT II; tumor nodule weight was 750 ± 480 mg for Sham, 960 ± 620 mg for Beam only, 380 ± 720 mg for BPA-BNCT I and 7.3 ± 5.9 mg for BPA-BNCT II. The BPA-BNCT II group exhibited statistically significant tumor control with no contributory liver toxicity. Potential threshold doses for tumor response and significant tumor control were established at 6.1 and 9.2 Gy, respectively.

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Boron Neutron Capture TherapyAnimalsColorectal NeoplasmsDose-Response Relationship, RadiationFemaleFollow-Up StudiesLiver NeoplasmsMaleRadiotherapy DosageRatsRetrospective Studies

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