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Show Isotopes Aid In Cancer War To Be Contributed For Research Work WASHINGTON. Radio lsotopet valuable products of the nation's atomic energy program will be made available without charge to qualified cancer research workers In the United States. This contribution to the continuing con-tinuing fight against cancer will be made by the atomic energy commission, com-mission, according to a recent announcement an-nouncement here. The free availibility of all radio Isotopes for proper use was described de-scribed by Dr. Shields Warren, director di-rector of the commission's divi-lion divi-lion of biology and medicine, as a "significant enlargement" of the commission's already ambitious program of research for the detection detec-tion and cure of cancer. The program, announced last March, has as Its primary objective, objec-tive, it was stated, the development develop-ment of the use of radioactive tub-stances tub-stances in studies of the nature, diagnosis and treatment of the most baffling of diseases. Radio-Isotopes are ordinary chemical elements, tuch at gold, carbon and phosphorus, In radioactive radio-active form. They become radioactive radio-active by exposure to the Intense radiations In an atomic furnace, or technically, a nuclear, chain-reacting chain-reacting pile, such at exists at Oak Ridge national laboratory at Oak Ridge, Tcnn. Previously, the commission had made only three radlo-isotopet, those of the elements of Iodine, phosphorus and sodium, available to qualified users. The broadened commission policy will provide more than SO additional elements. This new radio-isotope, according to commission tclentistt, "promises "prom-ises to become an effective tub-ttitute tub-ttitute for radium, the rare and expensive naturally radioactive substance that hat been used In cancer research for many years." |