NTHU’s Boron Neutron Capture Therapy Center Begins Treating Overseas Brain Cancer Patients

HSINCHU, Taiwan, March 25 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) — On February 14^th the melodious strains of the fourth movement of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony were heard inside the building of Tsing Hua Open pool Reactor (THOR) at National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) – for this is the favorite piece of music of a European woman who was here to undergo Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT) for a malignant brain tumor. This was her second course of treatment. The size of malignant glioma deep in her brainstem was reduced from 3.51 cm to 1.06 cm after the first treatment.

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