Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 February 1948 — Page 7

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Speed in Shipment of Radioactive lodine Important for Use in Thyroid Cancer Cases

Second of a Series

NEW YORK, 3—An takes off from Nashville, Tenn.

The plane is

is lucky. . This patient has cancer of the thyroid and about 15 per cent of |P such cancer patients can be treated with radioactive iodine. He is jn that select group. The cargo flown from the atomic energy ovens in Tennessee is really a bundle of exploding atoms. Technically, it is known as jodine 131. Finally Becomes Xenon Speed in the shipment of radioactive iodine is essential. This particular radioactive substance loses half of its radiation in eight

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maining radiation is lost in the] next. eight days. This goes on until finally all radiation disappears. Then it becomes another element known as Xenon, a gas! of the neon family. Such radioactive substance 1s) being sent to numerous hospitals ‘Jlall over the country. The “best customer” of Oak Ridge is New York's Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allled Diseases. the time that the air liner takes off from Tennessee it is usually the rule that scientists at Memo- |

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receive this atomic medicine. Shipment of an isotope usually leaves Oak Ridge by air on Tues-| days and it arrives at a New York airport séveral hours liter. | Sometimes it takes more time for, the cargo to be delivered from | the airfield to the hospital than

York. All during such deliveries

ton time is lost beyond recovery.

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By PAUL F. ELLIS, United Press Science Writer

desperately ill in a hospital in New York. The patient needs that precious cargo, and needs it fast. radioactive

and may save or prolong the patient's

"‘|beta rays and the other gamma

days. After that half of its re-|

At!anout one thirtieth of an ounce:

rial have a patient prepared to]

it takes from Tennessee to New | cost in some. cases has been re-

the radioactive substance is rapidly losing its'force. THat radia-

Memorial's scientists say the]

10n Ellis Island

{land on a deportation warrant |

“|by Federal officers shortly after

fodine. It is atomic medicine life. He has cancer, but he

surface radiation coming off a properly packed isotope is no greater than the radiation from the Iu radium dial of a pilot's wrist

A cakive fodine is made in the atomic ovens By exposing tellurium to the penetrating rays emitted in the uranium. ovens. The radioactive iodine throws off radiation, one being known as

rays. Isotopes Not Visible . The substance is usually measured by the radiation it throws {oft rather than by weight. The imost common measurement is {known as the millicurie. In one millicurie 37 million atoms of the substance disintegrate each secnd. It has been established that {100 millicuries disintegrating 3.7 billion atoms per second weigh about eight tenths of a microgram. A microgram is one millionth of a gram, and a gram. is

That's why these quantities of radioactive istotopes are not vis{ible under a microscope. Before the atomic bomb proj-| lect, the cost of making radio-| |active substance in a cyclotron, | was prohibtivé. There is one] thyroid cancer case in which the| {patient spent more than $5000 |for his radioactive medicine. Today, with radioactive iodine coming from the atomic oven, the

duced to less than $500.

TOMORROW: W: Leftist cancer cells vs. Fightist cells. i

Eisler Denied Bail

NEW YORK, Feb. 3 (UP)—Gerhart Eisler, 52, so-called No, 1 1Communist in the United States, was held without bail at Ellis Is-|

today. i a... attorney said she would at-| mpt to obtain his release by a em of habeas corpus. Eisler was arrested Yesterday

Federal Judge James W. Morris denied him a retrial on charges of concealing Communist affiliations when he applied for a passport in 1945." He was convicted on- that charge last - year and faces a maximum sentence .of five years in prison and a $5000 fine,

{Miss Carruth to Talk At Church Dinner:

The business and professional women of the Meridian Street Methodist Church will present Miss Maudie Carruth in a talk at their monthly dinner at 6:30 p. m. tomorow in the church's temporary quarters, E. Sist St. Miss Carruth is the pastor's assistant and a former resident of Panama.

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NEW YORK-Arrivals: Veendam, Rotterdam; Jamaica, Pucrto Barrios; ‘Santa Barbara, Valparaiso; Santa Clara, Maracaibo, NEW YORK-Departures: American Vet eran, . Bremen; Nieuw Amsterdam. Ratterdam; Southland, hi Xi acdale Montevideo. :

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