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How Did Alan Jobs Use Therac-25
It was April 1st 1985 and while people were playing pranks on April fool’s day, it was a big day for the Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) as they launched their new cancer therapy machine, Therac-25.The machine according to the chief engineer offered two modes of radiation therapy to cure cancer. This machine according to some was the innovation of the century and a gift to mankind. As the team of engineers was celebrating the day of the launch of their “successful invention”, the medical team of the Death Valley Cancer Hospital (DVCH) was installing the first ever model of Therac-25.This was not the only big news why AECL was in the news, some newspapers claim that AECL had fired the assistant engineer of Therac-25, Dr. Steve Turing …show more content…
The team at DVCH installed the machine and were ready to take in patients for cancer cure within 2 days of installation. Alan Jobs became the first human to be treated using this new invention in the field of medicine and science. After about a month of treatment using Therac-25 Alan Jobs and several others including the president of AECL felt fitter and cured of cancer entirely and the reports did show the improvement. However, a few days later, Alan Jobs started feeling clumsy and spotted a few “rash” like marks on various parts of his body. He thought of those as some sort of a symptom of skin allergy and did not take it seriously, a few more days later he noticed an immense increase in the size of his K-9 teeth but he ignored it as well. A few days his best friend visited his
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