Word: theratron
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DIED. Carl Braestrup, 85, physicist who sounded early alarms about radiation's dangers and co-invented the Theratron, a cobalt-therapy machine patented in 1953 and still used to treat cancer; of complications from a stroke; in Middletown, Conn...
...Hilda MacKenzie of Brockton was crushed to death when the "fail-safe" mechanism on the Theratron cobalt radio-therapy machine failed to operate. She died when the treatment platform on which she lay moved upwards against the machine...
Hellman, who is also professor of Radiation Therapy at the Med School, said last night that the machines used at the Peter Bent Brigham, Deaconess and Children's hospitals do not require direct contact with the patient's body as does the Theratron machine...
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