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Cyclotron for Cancer. Winner of the Society's gold medal was Dr. John Hundale Lawrence of Berkeley, Calif., brother of Nobelman Ernest Orlando Lawrence, who splits atoms with a giant cyclotron. Brother John said last week that cyclotron bombardment can give any element the emanating qualities of radium. These radioactive elements, when swallowed in liquid form, have two great uses for medicine: 1) in minuscule amounts, they settle in specific organs for a brief time, then can be traced in their journey through the body, providing a clue to the process of growth and repair; 2) in larger doses...
...woman with an enormous cancer of the cheek walked into the office of Dr. Emanuel Louis Stammer of Queens, N.Y. The woman said she had been given many X-ray and radium treatments at Queens General Hospital; none of them seemed to do any good...
...higher court. Dr. Stammer's salve, said the Regents' consulting scientists, was known to be entirely ineffectual (if it really contained the ingredients he thought it did). The cure, they claimed, was either: 1) a delayed reaction from the patient's early X-ray and radium treatments, or 2) a spontaneous regression...
...most planes, control handles and numerals on instruments are covered with radium paint for visibility in darkness. "This radium paint gives off emanations which are absorbed by the body and, in large enough doses, can cause radium poisoning." Such poisoning, say the doctors, is unlikely. "There is some danger, however, of flakes of the radium paint on the control handles sticking to the hands and later being transferred to the mouth." Preventive: all control handles should have their radium paint covered with a coat of shellac or varnish...
...been done with radio-phosphorus. Hevesy and others have found that phosphorus turnover (metabolism) is slowest in the brain, somewhat faster in muscles and other organs, fastest in bones (which use 75% of the body's phosphorus). Since 1938 doctors have been using radio-phosphorus instead of radium or X-ray exposure in the treatment of leukemia, a mysterious cancerlike disease of the blood and blood-forming tissue such as bone marrow. This is the first therapeutic application resulting from tracer studies with radioelements...