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Thursday, December 19, 2002The organ was placed in a Teflon bag that neutrons can pass through and taken to a research reactor nearby, where it was irradiated with neutrons. It was then re-implanted, just as in a normal liver transplant operation. "By explanting the organ, we could give a high and uniform dose to all the liver, which is impossible to obtain inside the body without serious risk to the patient," says Tazio Pinelli, a physicist who coordinated the work together with liver surgeon Aris Zonta. It's only been tried on one patient, a man with colon cancer that had spread to his liver, but after one year, they say he's alive and well. posted by Sydney on 12/19/2002 07:16:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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