OOCUMENT SOURCE Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Archives and Records Office Records Seriesile File Code No. Carton No. Older No. 1 Ke ETR 3 a om eS PITT a Woree + Found By Musee. Dales y \'¢ Ae Q 25 You mean they were underdosing? Lh ew Underdosing and letting the disease keep ahead of &. I establistied the letHal dose of P32 in rire~meakey/ rhesus monkeys. TANS] Lous -Geer And Mrs, bebter did the cell counts for m ng) aed bedadose A of ata? 3 of-about? if I remember correctly, 2 1/2 millicures‘kilogram bodyweightéy / would just about kill half of them. Why were the Lawrences afraid to take that one extra step? ‘To really give an effective dose? KGS: Well, I don"t know, part of it was the shortage of P32, we had trouble making enough on the newer cyclotron that they built and put it in Crocker Lab. SSH; 60". The b6uiech. Yes, SSH: of GO. And yet the lé—imech was a better producer of isotopes than the 37 teh, wasn"t it? KGS; Oh, much, yes, much better. SSH: But it still wasn't enough for adequate... KGS: Welltt just didn't have'the output to do it witire SSE: What was the response of the medical community, and specifically the medical school in San Francisco? They were tnterested tn what we were doing, ' pops up fn Dv. [Ro tart $2] Veter, Stone's tape, Stacey, A man's name , waa in there. And I remember S.F. Cook going to San Francisco with me, with and our leukemia studfes on the effect of P32 on leukemia and so forth, .(ac remember talking to wob(or, who was just a young man then, Nand one of the therapists, he got leukemia cases and so forth. SSH: ta that where you were actually treating the patients?