Cancer research today: tumour diagnosis: physical methods

digital file Black & White Sound 1974 42:44

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Summary: Here, Boag, Jones, McReady and Taylor discuss different physical methods of tumour diagnosis in cancer. The cassette is accompanied by the following summary: The programme illustrates four new techniques for detecting malignant tumours: xeroradiography - a method of taking x-ray pictures which greatly enhances contrast and is partiCancercularly useful in breast radiographs thermography - which can sometimes reveal an underlying malignant growth by a significant change in the skin temperature pattern ultrasound - which can map out the internal structure of an organ such as the liver from the echose produced in it: new radioactive substances - which are preferentially retained by growing tumours and therefore reveal their location by the gamma rays they emit. 8 segments.

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