cobalt therapy

In 1961 cobalt therapy was expected to replace X-ray radiotherapy.

I had a prostatectomy and cobalt therapy and, for many years, was in pretty good shape.

Radium was used in various forms until the mid-1900s, when cobalt therapy and caesium units came into use.

I had cobalt therapy and chemotherapy.

In late 1971, the Duke, who was a smoker from an early age, was diagnosed with throat cancer and underwent cobalt therapy.

After several cobalt therapy sessions, Disney and his wife spent a short time in Palm Springs, California.

Cobalt therapy or cobalt-60 therapy is the medical use of gamma rays from cobalt-60 radioisotopes to treat conditions such as cancer.

The cobalt therapy suite was added at this time, as were fifty-two private patient rooms, and extensive remodelling was done throughout the facility.

The versatility of LINAC is a potential advantage over cobalt therapy as a treatment tool.

Radioactive particles, I thought - remembering the rapid-fire emission of bits of light from James-James's cosmic machine - like you find in cobalt therapy.

He underwent cobalt therapy at New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital using a cobalt 60 treatment regimen that he designed himself.

Mr. Braestrup was a member of the Manhattan Project, which developed the first atomic bomb, and he invented the Theratron, a cobalt therapy machine used to treat cancer.

One was a young physicist from Canada, T Rockwell Mackie, who grew up in the town where Cobalt therapy, a form of radiation treatment, was developed; Minesh Mehta was the other.

Dr. Rakesh Jain, an expert on the physiology of tumors at Massachusetts General Hospital, said in a commentary that the Cobalt therapy "did produce impressive results" and called it "a new weapon in the war against cancer."

In 1949, Dr. Harold E. Johns of the University of Saskatchewan sent a request to the National Research Council (NRC) asking them to produce Cobalt-60 isotopes for use in a cobalt therapy unit prototype.