satisfaction. However, the Deaconess Hospital did namethe Lab after him -
the Shields Warren Laboratory.
[7. Blood Counts]
BERGE:
I'm just about finished. You mentioned something about doing
radiation therapy work in UCSFspecifically on the effects on blood count.
KOHN:
Yes.
BERGE:
Did you work with, well what kind of work did you do with
that? And did you have anycollaboration for some of the hematologists at
UCSF?
KOHN:
No, I was no great shakes. But where is that mentioned? That
paper was published in 1955, Changes in the Human Leukocyte Count during
X-ray Therapy for Cancer and Their Dependence Upon the Integral Dose. I
had noticed when doing someclinical work that the literature on changes in
the blood count was very small, amazingly so. I had a technician who drew
the blood and did the counts-of patients before, during and after treatment.
The results were interested though I still am not sure as to what they mean.
Do you understand what is meant by dose?
BERGE:
What do you mean by I don't understand?
KOHN:
Well, radiation dose means the amountof radiation given per
gram of exposed tissue. What I found wasthat if you irradiated a small part
of the neck, you got a certain depression of the blood count. If you irradiated
the whole neck, giving the same dose as before, you got a much largereffect.
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