TREATMENT OF TUMORS

Technical progress made in neuroradiology, and focal external and inte rnal radiation therapy, have allowed the development of a series of lo cal therapeutic modalities both in primary and in metastatic brain tum ours. Eligibility criteria and results obtained with these new techniq ues are compared. Experimental studies with implications for radiation therapy, particularly boron neutron capture therapy, and for chemothe rapy are reviewed. The possible use of chemotherapy as first-line trea tment in non-Hodgkins lymphomas of central nervous system is stressed. (C) Rapid Science Publishers.