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Gordon Isaacs, the first patient treated with the linear accelerator (radiation therapy) for retinoblastoma in 1957. Gordon's right eye was removed January 11, 1957 because the cancer had spread. His left eye, however, had only a localized tumor that prompted Henry Kaplan to try to treat it with the
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Dr. Henry Kaplan, in the 1950s, with an early model of the linear accelerator developed to treat cancer. For this picture the protective hood was removed, revealing the electronic insides of the six-million-volt machine, used for radiation
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Thwaites DI and Tuohy J, Back to the future: the history and development of the clinical linear accelerator, Phys. Med. Biol. 51 (2006) R343–R36, doi:10.1088/0031-9155/51/13/R20
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of his right eye, and the disease threatened his left eye. The patient survived into adulthood with normal vision in his left eye. His main focus was on
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Charlotte D. Jacobs, "Henry S. Kaplan", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences (2015)
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electron beam. Gordon is now living in the East Bay, and his vision in the left eye is normal.
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Malcolm A. Bagshaw, Henry E. Jones, Robert F. Kallman, Joseph P. Kriss.
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in 1972. In 1979, he received the Charles F. Kettering Prize from the
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Medical linear accelerator celebrates 50 years of treating cancer
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Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
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In 1969, he became the first physician credited with the
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Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Henry Kaplan (doctor)
Henry Kaplan
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radiologist
radiation therapy
radiobiology
Rush Medical College
University of Minnesota
Yale University
National Cancer Institute
lung cancer
Edward Ginzton
linear accelerator
United States
Stanford University Medical Center
Stanford University
radiation therapy
retinoblastoma
Hodgkin's disease
Atoms for Peace Prize
National Academy of Sciences
General Motors
Dr. Henry Kaplan, Cancer-Fighter, is Dead
New York Times

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