Sarcoma RIP

i like the language Dr. Z uses about radiation: "We'll keep firing away at it" or "It will be dead by the time we remove it at surgery". This place is a Battle Zone, the doctors and their staff are the warriors. Their weapons are knowledge, scapels, drugs and these incredible machines:

This is theTheratron 780-C and i took that picture during radiation, hence the red light. This machine is nearly 30 years old; imagine the lives it has saved.

Here it is battling my Knee-Bunion:>>>>

Pretty cool, huh?

Even cooler is some history of Radiation i learned about today. The very first Radiation machine was called the "Cobalt-60 Irradiator" and was built in the late 1940's.

It treated the first patient ever on Feb. 22, 1954, a month before the hospital had officially opened.

Dr. Gilbert Fletcher, known as the "Father of modern Radio-Therapy", was a doctor here at M.D Anderson.

I took this from an interesting article about him:

"A French-born physician, Dr. Fletcher joined the fledgling M. D. Anderson staff in 1948 as director of radiotherapy. He opened a basement clinic in temporary quarters of an old family estate and soon began building a model of the first cobalt-60 unit that would dramatically change the outlook for cancer patients around the world."

THANK YOU DR. FLETCHER!!!