DRAFT
I'm talking now back in the period of say,
cancer nere,
they would make up a container
Strap it on there and you would wear
three days,
to prevent
there,
1919.
take
it off put
radiation
that,
it away.
If you had a
for radium
let's
They would
say for two days,
It was made of course,
from going out here,
and there were certain results.
first
but only going down
Now,
the German school
believed that the more radiation you could give and the faster you
could give
it
the better.
But
this
chap,
that perhaps you ought to take it easier.
Claude Regaud,
believed
So he gave his dose of
radiation over a week and then he extended it out to two weeks.
And he got very much better results in the healing.
would heal,
and the cancer would also go.
The skin
So in effect,
Claude
Regaud invented the fractionation or the protraction of dosage.
Now,
starting with that,
which one it was,
larynx.
some chap came down from,
I've forgotten
well they then applied it to the cancer of the
There they found two weeks and somebody said let's do
three weeks.
Four weeks,
five weeks and by this practice but
always making a gentle step they finally decided that probably
five weeks was okay.
Then they also
good result they would have
individual
treatment,
so
to raise
that
up 50% or something like that.
the dosage a bit,
the total
treatment,
on the
say,
might go
But giving it was an improvement.
That's the way that all was invented,
was trained,
found that in order to get a
so when I came,
so when I
it was known that as a result of these fellas,
five weeks and I would say that I've
4000 rads was about it.
treatments at five weeks,
Now,
that
forgotten maybe 3500 maybe
you could try and give the
seven weeks if you wanted to.
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