Springville Herald | 1948-05-20 | Page 8 | Progress Seen on Leukemia Research Work

PROGRESS SEEN ON LEUKEMIA RESEARCH WORK "Encouraging progress," especially espec-ially in the development of new methods of diagnosis, is revealed in first reports from doctors working work-ing with VA's radio-istope research re-search program. Dr. George M. Lyon, chief of VA's radio-istope section, also revealed re-vealed that leukemia patients are now being treated with radio-phosphorus radio-phosphorus in most of the seven VA hospitals having radio-istope units, and that another atomic pile by-product radio-iodine is being employed to treat some thyroid thy-roid diseases. "It may be too much to expect this new form of treatment to prolong pro-long life or cure the leukemia patient," pa-tient," Dr. Lyon said, "but it certainly cer-tainly does reduce the suffering and makes their days more bearable."