Word: cobalt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...special reverence is held for LAMPF, the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility. There, one of the most powerful linear proton accelerators in existence is using a particle called a pion to treat certain cancers. Because of the technique's pinpoint accuracy, it is a possible substitute for dreaded cobalt and X-ray therapy...
Radioactive materials are essential tools in modern medicine. A radioactive form, or isotope, of cobalt is used in treatment of cancer. Radioactive isotopes of other elements are employed as tracers that enable doctors to follow the paths of substances through the body. For example, iodine 131, given orally or intravenously, is accumulated by the thyroid, which uses iodine to produce hormones. An imaging device detects the gamma rays given off by the isotope and translates them into dots that appear oij a TV screen. Result: help in diagnosing such disorders as hyperthyroidism and cancer...
Cormack returned to Harvard's cyclotron in 1963 to carry out one of the experiments which lead to the development of the CAT scanning process, because only Harvard could supply the cobalt 60 needed to confirm his theories...
Alan Baldwin Cobalt, Idaho...
...Steven Shepherd's 26-year-old belly looks like a zipper. His faded brown shirt is open, and the scar is the first thing you notice. "It's a splenectomy," he informs. "Hodgkin's disease. I spent a year in the hospital with chemotherapy and cobalt treatments. Now they say it's regressed." It is the beginning of another day in Evanston, Wyo. (pop. 4,848; elevation 6,748 ft.), and while Shepherd talks, the oil and water stains on the cement driveway of the A & A Texaco station are turned to rainbows by the morning...