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Cobalt therapy
Other namesCobalt-60 therapy
Specialtyoncology
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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]

  1. ^ https://www.irsn.fr/sites/default/files/documents/professionnels_sante/documentation/syllabus_chapitre_5.pdf

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