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Unleashed radiation can be the most potent of killers, but controlled in medical practice it can help save or prolong lives. Doctors at the University of California's Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory treat a woman suffering from a tumor pressing against her spinal cord by bombarding the cancer with heavy-ion radiation.

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