Medicine

Sunshine in a bottle. The origins of using radiation as a modern cancer treatment with Aimee Slaughter
December 30, 2020
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Sunshine in a bottle. The origins of using radiation as a modern cancer treatment with Aimee Slaughter

In this episode of My Nuclear Life, host Shelly Lesher interviews Aimee Slaughter. They discuss early radium therapy its journey from sideshow attraction to a staple in US hospitals before WWII. This marks the first-time physicists and chemists worked with physicians in hospitals and clinics to brings ...