Word: polycythemia
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Radioactive isotopes of phosphorus have been employed in palliative therapy in such conditions as leukemia and polycythemia; but the goiter treatment by means of radioactive iodine he holds, represents a "first" in what he hopes will be a long series of definitive treatment based upon the application of fundamental researches of the nuclear physicists...
...seek out and destroy cancer cells without harming normal body cells. All known drugs fail. But radioactive isotopes of elements normally used by the body have recently been found to be effective against two diseases helpful in studying cancer. The diseases: 1) hyperthyroidism (overactivity of the thyroid gland); 2) polycythemia (overactivity of tissues which manufacture red blood cells...
Blood-forming tissues, similarly, have an affinity for phosphorus. Radioactive phosphorus alleviates polycythemia...