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

Published: Dec. 30, 2020, 11:07 a.m.

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 a treatment to the public with the hopes to cure cancer. The podcast addresses the different ways radium therapy has helped shape the modern technology in our hospitals today.
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