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Cobalt therapy
Other names
Cobalt-60 therapy
Specialty
oncology
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Cobalt therapy is the medical use of gamma rays from the radioisotope cobalt-60 to treat conditions such as cancer. Beginning in the 1950s, cobalt-60 was widely used in external beam radiotherapy (teletherapy) machines, which produced a beam of gamma rays which was directed into the patient's body to kill tumor tissue. Because these "cobalt machines" were expensive and required specialist support, they were often housed in cobalt units. Cobalt therapy was a revolutionary advance in radiotherapy in the post-World War II period but is now being replaced by other technologies such as linear accelerators.[1]
Cobalttherapy is the medical use of gamma rays from the radioisotope cobalt-60 to treat conditions such as cancer. Beginning in the 1950s, cobalt-60 was...
radiotherapy. Cobalttherapy, teletherapy machines using megavolt gamma rays emitted by cobalt-60, a radioisotope produced by irradiating ordinary cobalt metal...
Cobalt is a chemical element; it has symbol Co and atomic number 27. As with nickel, cobalt is found in the Earth's crust only in a chemically combined...
first hospital in Central Ohio to develop an extensive cobalttherapy program, where the use of cobalt-60 became the dominant radiation source for treating...
November 1966, he was diagnosed with lung cancer and was treated with cobalttherapy. On November 30, he felt unwell and was taken by ambulance from his...
Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica on December 7, 1964, and cobalttherapy was started on December 10. Frank Sinatra performed in Cole's place...
have contracted the disease several years earlier. He was treated with cobalttherapy, and in April 1978 radioactive particles were implanted as treatment...
A. D.; Brown, D. W.; et al. (2014). "Cobalt, Linac, or Other: What Is the Best Solution for Radiation Therapy in Developing Countries?". Global Health...
January–February 2000. The accident happened when an insecurely stored unlicensed cobalt-60 radiation source was recovered by scrap metal collectors who, together...
smoker from an early age, was diagnosed with throat cancer and underwent cobalttherapy. On 18 May 1972, Queen Elizabeth II visited the Duke and Duchess of...
diagnosed with bladder cancer. He underwent cobalttherapy at New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital using a cobalt 60 treatment regimen that his doctors...
radiation beam. The versatility of LINAC is a potential advantage over cobalttherapy as a treatment tool. In addition, the device can simply be powered off...
significantly more commonplace before the introduction of higher energy cobalttherapy and linear accelerator systems between the 1950s to 1970s. Historically...
In 1954, Allegheny General (AGH) was among the first to administer Cobalttherapy. In 1980, UPMC announced a $250 million ($1.05 billion today) expansion...
treatment center was installed, consisting in a CT simulator, a cobalt radiation therapy room and sophisticated software for accurate results. The center...
first appearing in the simultaneously released Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Cobalt Squadron (both 2017). A mechanic with the Resistance, she befriends Finn...
radiation rather than excision with a blade. Like other forms of radiation therapy (also called radiotherapy), it is usually used to treat cancer. Radiosurgery...
funded includes: the development of the cobalt-60 unit in the 1950s to treat cancer tumors with cobalttherapy, a treatment still widely used today the...
recovered there, as well as the heavy truck itself; the decommissioned cobalttherapy machine had been en route from Tijuana, Baja California, to proper disposal...
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a form of phototherapy involving light and a photosensitizing chemical substance used in conjunction with molecular oxygen...
External Beam Radiation Therapy (EBRT), in which high-energy x-rays (or occasionally gamma-rays from a radioisotope like cobalt-60) are directed at the...
In materials and electric battery research, cobalt oxide nanoparticles usually refers to particles of cobalt(II,III) oxide Co 3O 4 of nanometer size, with...
Yaddo, but is very ill at the beginning of 1968 and starts a course of cobalttherapy. Alexander Laing raises a subscription from Guthrie's former students...