Talk:Boron neutron capture therapy

Research Reactors

At some point I may add a list of nuclear research reactors that do BNCT to this article. But it might be useful to make a tag instead. I don't really know, what does anyone else think? I can't right now create an exhaustive list for this, but after the research reactors series is finished I should be able to. It's a fairly unique capability. theanphibian 06:42, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Need for a merge or (better) delete

The other better article neutron capture therapy of cancer has only one paragraph that isn't about BORON-based neutron capture therapy (NCT) (this paragraph is about gadolinium-based NCT). That other article is far more detailed about the boron-based NCT than is THIS dedicated boron neutron capture therapy article. So we have an overlap, but in the wrong direction, as the general article on NCT for cancer has a far better and longer review of "boron neutron capture therapy" than does boron neutron capture therapy.

Possibilities are:

1. Delete this boron neutron capture therapy article and redirect to the general neutron capture therapy (of cancer) article. This isn't really a merge as the boron NCT article is short, and doesn't really have any info that neutron capture therapy of cancer doesn't, and only has one illustration lacking here, which could easily be moved here (I think the one here is better, but the other could be used farther down).

   Note that the "of cancer" part of this article is superfluous since NCT (whether with B or Gd as target) is only used for cancer. But I don't think that's enough reason to rename this article by shortening it, unless it is to be renamed anyway.

2. Another possiblity is that the article neutron capture therapy of cancer could be renamed boron neutron capture therapy (deleting that one) and spinning off gadolinium neutron capture therapy as a stub. I don't like that option, as it would be a pretty small stub, and there's a better place for it with this other material, which incorporates most of the same external techniques.

If I don't hear from other editors in a week I'll just be WP:BOLD and do option #1. SBHarris 18:11, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

Hello? I'm going to merge these and tag this shorter one PROD (proposed delete). SBHarris 21:07, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

i concur with the merge after reading the articles; i say go ahead. --RichardMills65 (talk) 23:08, 1 April 2012 (UTC)