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First at London's St. Thomas's Hospital, and lately at Columbia-Presbyterian, plain oxygen has proved to be a useful ally toward this goal. Cells are more easily destroyed if they have a large supply of oxygen, but tumor cells are frequently oxygen-starved; they grow so rapidly that they outstrip their blood supply. Radiotherapists speculated that they might make up the deficiency by putting the patient in a chamber where he could breathe oxygen at a pressure four times that of the atmosphere. A high concentration of oxygen could then be carried in the bloodstream...
...into position. After slamming shut a hatch at the end of the chamber, technicians force oxygen in. After 15 minutes under full pressure, during which the patient's body is closely watched by means of closed-circuit television, the radiologist turns on the betatron, shoots radiation at the tumor. Following treatment, the patient is decompressed in deep-sea-diver fashion and taken to the recovery room...
...Thompson of Hot Springs, Ark. Thompson takes about four minutes to work himself up to a scream of healing: "That woman down there with arthritis, send in your request!'' he shouts. ''And that woman in her kitchen just now that is suffering with a bad tumor-God wants you to send in your request! And that woman that is sitting there by the radio and is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Oh. God, don't doubt this broadcast. Be sure that you help me now. Obey the voice...
...building near Rockefeller Center), and when he entered the University of Michigan Hospital a fortnight ago, he had been planning to pick up an honorary degree from the Technical Institute of Hannover, an award held by only five living men. The doctors' diagnosis was brain tumor; they operated, but the case was hopeless...
Died. Eero Saarinen, 51, bold shaper of modern architecture; of a brain tumor; in Ann Arbor, Mich...