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アクセイ シンケイ コウシュ ニ タイスル チュウセイシ ホソク リョウホウ : コンゴウ ビーム ネツチュウセイシ ト ネツガイチュウセイシ ビーム オ モチイタ アタラシイ チリョウ センリャク
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Boron neutron capture therapy using mixed neutron beam in patients with malignant glioma
著者
永廣, 信治 徳島大学医学部情報統合医学講座脳神経外科学分野 徳島大学 教育研究者総覧 KAKEN研究者をさがす
中川, 義信 香川小児病院脳神経外科
キーワード
BNCT
BSH
epithermal neutron beam
glioblastoma
資料タイプ
学術雑誌論文
抄録
The purpose of this study was to clarify the clinical interim results of boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) using mixed epithermal-and thermal neutron beams in patients with malignant glioma. The mixed neutron beam for BNCT has been used clinically since 1998. Its great advantage consists of its greater ability than the pure thermal neutron beam to reach sites deep from the brain surface.
Sixteen patients with malignant glioma (glioblastoma n=14, anaplastic ependymoma n=1, PNET n=1) underwent mixed epithermal-and thermal neutron beam treatment between 1998 and 2003. They included 2 children younger than 3 years. Sodium borocaptate (Na2B12H11SH, BSH ; 80-100 mg/kg) was administered intravenously at 12-15 hr before neutron irradiation. The radiation dose (i.e. physical dose of boron n-alpha reaction) in the he protocol used between 1997 and 2000 (Protocol A) prescribed a maximum tumor volume dose of 15 Gy. In 2001, a new dose-escalated protocol was introduced (Protocol B) ; it prescribes a minimum tumor volume dose of 18 Gy or, alternatively, a minimum target volume dose of 15 Gy. In both protocols, the maximum vascular radiation dose to the brain surface is not to exceed 15 Gy. Of the 12 patients, 8 were treated according to Protocols A and 4 according to Protocol B. Since 2002, the radiation dose was reduced to 80-90% dose of Protocol B because of acute radiation injury. A new Protocol was applied to four glioblastoma patients (Protocol C).
Of the 8 patients treated under Protocol A, 7 died (dissemination n=4, local recurrence, infection, unknown causes, n=1 each). Of the 4 patients treated under Protocol B, 2 died. Concerning the adverse effects of BNCT, Protocol B resulted in higher complication rates with respect to both acute and delayed radiation injury. The estimated median survival time after diagnosis and after BNCT in all patients were 16.7 and 14.6 months, respectively. In 8 patients of Protocol A, the estimated median survival time after diagnosis was 16.0 months ; 1-year and 2-year survival rate were 75.0% and 12.5%, respectively. On the other hand, in 8 patients in Protocol B and C, the estimated median survival time after diagnosis was 15.5 months ; 1-year and 2-year survival rate were 80.0% and 53.3%, respectively.
Our limited clinical evaluation suggests that BNCT could achieve local control of glioblastomas at the primary site and that possible dose escalation is limited. While the dose escalation can contribute to the improvement of survival rate, it results in the radiation injury. We conclude that not only the radiation dose at the target point, but also the distribution of neutron flux in the radiation field may contribute to the cure of glioblastoma by BNCT. Computation-assisted dose planning can contribute to improved clinical results following BNCT and to the prevention of cerebrospinal fluid dissemination. We will introduce pure epithermal neutron beam instead of mixed neutron beam in the near future. It has greater advantage than mixed neutron beam to deep-seated glioma because it has a peak in neutron flux at 2-3 cm depth from the brain surface. The dose-planning system and pure epithermal neutron beam can lead to further improvements in the clinical outcomes and the avoidance of adverse effects in brain tumor patients subjected to BNCT.
掲載誌名
四国医学雑誌
ISSN
00373699
cat書誌ID
AN00102041
出版者
徳島医学会
59
6
開始ページ
292
終了ページ
298
並び順
292
発行日
2003-12-25
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言語
jpn
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部局
病院