La cura delle metastasi epatiche diffuse mediante il metodo TAOrMINA

TAOrMINA (Advanced Treatment of Organs by Neutronic Irradiation and Autotransplantation) is a technique developed at the University of Pavia for treating diffuse cancer in explantable organs. Neutron capture is the most selective among the treatments based on irradiation. First the affected cells are enriched in 10B, then the organ is removed and irradiated in a nuclear reactor. The received dose is lethal for the sick cells while the dose received by the healthy tissue is too low to make damage. After a short historical introduction, the article describes the first case of this therapy on a human liver that, after 18 months, is still in an excellent state.