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On the Trail of an Elusive Element Radium Seed Revolutionizes Therapy
The piece details the development of a radon seed method by American scientist William Duane that delivers radioactive therapy via tiny platinum sealed seeds. It explains how radium’s gaseous emanation is captured to create safe, inexpensive seeds enabling widespread, painless cancer treatment and reducing the previous famine of radium supply.
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