Battles against Cancer
Researchers in Japanese universities (Osaka Medical College and Kyoto University), etc. have developed a new method to combat cancers using neutron beams.
It is different from conventional ways to use neutron beams to destroy cancer cells. Currently, neutron beams also destroy normal cells around cancer cells, thus causing pains in a patient.
But the new method uses boron to be injected into the body of a patient. Then boron atoms converge into cancer cells. When neutron beams are radiated to the cancer cells, neutrons cause radioactive reactions in the cells containing boron, leading to discharge of neutrons from the cells which destroy other cancer cells around them. The flying distance of neutrons used in this method is just 0.009 mm. They don't harm other cells and organs.
The equipment to radiate neutron beams has a size of 3 meters (9 feet) x 3 meters x 3 meters, costing about 2.5 billion yen ($30 million). So this machine can be installed in an ordinary hospital, though a conventional neutron machine is placed in a nuclear reactor.
This equipment can radiate an amount of radioactive rays in 20 to 30 minutes that is equal to the amount of rays discharged from a conventional facility in six weeks.
Researchers in other Japanese universities (Tokyo Women's Medical University and Tokyo Medical University) are also engaged in study of a new method to kill cancer cells using laser rays. They use a special medical agent that generates active oxygen when receiving light. So, this agent is injected into the body of a cancer patient so that it will converge into cancer cells. Then, laser beams are radiated to activate the agent. Resultant active oxygen destroys the cancer cells.
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