Show doctors re report p ort kidi radioactive bac ti va arsenic used for cancer ATLANTIC CITY N J the first use of radioactive arsenic for cancer was wa reported to the american association for cancer er R research escarc h th this is a arsenic Is m made ad e i in n an atomic en energy ergy furnace at the argonne laboratory near chicago it is u used se d on human leukemia and hodgkins disease both incurable forms of cancer the report was made by dr wll wit tiam liana neal nial leon 0 jacobson austin M brues howard ducott ducoff robert straube and tho thomas mas K kelly keily e 11 y of the argonne and the university of chicago department of medicine A arsenic is one of the old remedies f tor or b both 0 th di diseases ceases I 1 it t never cured nor was it known why the ars ers arsenic brila was beneficial the new form known as arsenic 78 emitting strong radioactive rays Is used for two purposes one is to try to learn leam why arsenic is beneficial the other Is to find out whether this new form may be more useful fo tor for r people with the dis eases |