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Two patients with tumors of the orbit which could not be treated using any conventional modalities were treated with 22 MEV neutrons at the FermiLab Cancer Therapy Facility at the National Accelerator Laboratory in the United States. One of the patients had a long course beginning with an benign lacrimal gland tumor, first removed in 1930, and developed a cystic adenocarcinoma in the mid-1970’s. The second patient was first noted to have a lacrimal tumor in 1974 with rapid growth of a cystic adenocarcinoma. Both patients had arrest of the primary carcinoma following neutron therapy; however, there is possible metastatic disease present in both patients at this time.
This study was support in part by a Block Fund Ophthalmology Grant, and the United States Public Health Service Grant EY 00523.
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Fritz, K.J., Lawrence, G.A., Jay, W.M., Schanzlin, J. (1979). Fast Neutron Therapy for Advanced Lacrimal Gland Cylindromas. In: Jaeger, W. (eds) Ionisierende Strahlen in der Augenheilkunde. Deutsche Ophthalmologische Gesellschaft, vol 76. J.F. Bergmann-Verlag, Munich. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-87151-1_36
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