HX PERSPECTIVES

Question 1

-discovered xrays while studying cathode rays
quickly put to clinical use
- win nobel prize 1901

Answer 1

Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen

Nov 8 1895

Question 2

discovered radioactivity

“some atoms give off energy in form of xrays. uranium gives of radiaton”

Answer 2

Henri Becquerel
march 1 1896

shared nobel prize w/ pierre curie
1903

Question 3

t was concluded that xrays could be used for therapeutic as well as diagnostic purposes

Answer 3

1897,

Question 4

published the “Theory of Radioactivity.”

Answer 4

1912,

Marie Curie

Question 5

investigation of x-ray

radiation for patient therapy moved into the clinical routine

Answer 5

early 1920s

Question 6

St Bartholomew’s Hospital pushed the limits of technology

with the 1 MV x-ray tube

Answer 6

1940’s.

Question 7

Megavoltage therapy matured with the

development of the Cobalt-60 machine along with the medical linear accelerator

Answer 7

1950

Question 8

Hospital-based particle

therapy arrived in

Answer 8

1989

Question 9

1st to recognize that radiation might cure cancer
noted peeling of hands
created his own xrt
underwent more than 90 surgeries due to intense exposure to radiation

Answer 9

1989 Emil Herman Grubbe

Question 10

55 yr old recurrent carcinoma of the breast (inoperable) treated by radiaiton

Answer 10

Rose Lee

jan 1896

Question 11

everyone in the medical field thought that xrs is the absolute cure fr=or all forms of cancer

Answer 11

1901

Question 12

radium and polonium

Answer 12

1898 Marie / Pierre curie

Question 13

nobel prize for curie and becquerel

1st succesful case of malignancy basal cell carcinoma of face

Answer 13

1903

Question 14

Single dose and Fractionated dose (found out it would be less damaging to the skin)
experimented on __ that resulted to skin rxn

Answer 14

Claude Regaud
ram scrotum
1911

Question 15

pioneer of fractionated radiotherapy
early french oncologist
applied idea of claude to human

Answer 15

Henri Coutard 1920

Question 16

reported results of cured laryngeal cancers

Answer 16

1934

Question 17

discovery of cobalt 60 isotope

Answer 17

Glenn T. Seaborg

1938

Question 18

shared noble prize in chemistry for discovery of transuranium elements

Answer 18

Glenn T. Seaborg and Edwin Mcmillan 1951

Question 19

sent request to nrc for production of co60 for use in cobalt therea isotope

Answer 19

1949 Harold John

Question 20

developed 1st medical LINAC at stanford university san francisco

Answer 20

Dr. Henry Kaplan (radiol) and Edward Ginzton (physic)

Question 21

1st patient treated w LINAC

Answer 21

GOrdon Isaac

2yrs old retinobalstoma