Show Study Cancer Equipment April's Cancer Control Month activities included an open house at the Radiation Center at the Latter-day Saints Saturday April MEMBERS of the health science and biology fields were invited with the general reports center director Henry P. A lecture on and was presented at 10 a.m. THE RADIATION Center started operation in March 1969 after moving from St. Mark's said its development was made possible through the cooperation of St. Mark's and Holy Cross Latter-day Saints Hospital purchased some of the available therapy equipment in the other two This concentration of facilities in one location reduces provides a wide range of ener gies to treat every type of malignance and allows better staffing by qualified physicists and well-trained SUPERFICIAL and x-ray a Cobalt unit and an eight-million-volt linear accelerator with varying electron beam energies are now available at the A high pressure oxygen chamber is used with some types of This modern treatment center is one of the few tumor treatment centers in the western United Somewhat comparable equipment is also in- at the University hospital in Salt Lake said that radiation is frequently the primary treatment for many types of cancer and is widely used in conjunction with either pre- or Often this therapy offers advantages over depending upon the lupe and location of the Radiation therapists work as a team with surgeons and with the patient benefiting from this highly specialized form of cooperation CONTRARY to popular radiation is painless with relatively few patients ever experiencing skin reactions or other side effects with modern high-energy An average of over fifty patients are treated every day at the Radiation The cost of operating the center is high and the center is still not self the expense of radiation treatments to the patient is usually considerable less than the total cost of surgery and even a week's THE CENTER has been approved for the training of qualified specialists in radiation therapy and four physicians now are at varying stages of their four-year program to become radiation The American Cancer Society contributes to the support of one such also described an approved training program for therapeutic The center accepts two students per year for a two-year One or two years of college or high school graduation with a B average are he THE AMERICAN Cancer Society in Utah assists with the expense of medically indigent the amount being limited to per Since patients come from outlying areas to the center for transportation is sometimes provided by the Utah Society chapters in the surrounding when patients cannot afford it |