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STONE AND LARKIN1 have recently reported upon their experience, aver a period of two years, in the treatment by fast neutrons of 120 patients with advanced 'incurable' cancer in various sites. The neutrons were generated by the 60 in. cyclotron at the Crocker Radiation Laboratory, San Francisco ; They were able to demonstrate both clinically and pathologically that some tumours disappeared as a result of neutron therapy, and their report, which is presented with admirable clarity and restraint, is on the whole encouraging. We wish to comment upon the possible influence of the energy of individual neutrons, both incident and at a depth in the body,' on the results obtained.
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GRAY, L., READ, J. TREATMENT OF CANCER BY FAST NEUTRONS. Nature 152, 53–54 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152053a0
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