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Photograph was edited for publication purposes Photograph caption dated January 5, 1957 reads, "Dr. George Campion, director of radiology department at St. Joseph Hospital in Burbank, and Ingrid Johnston, of his staff, demonstrate first Cobalt-60 medical bomb to arrive in San Fernando Valley. Special building was constructed on hospital grounds to house $60,000 machine which will be used to battle cancer. Energy punch of device packs equivalent to two million volts of an X-ray machine or 600 curies."
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St. Joseph Hospital (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.) St. Joseph Hospital (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.)--Employees Men--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County) Physicians--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County) Nuclear medicine--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County) Medical instruments and apparatus--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County) Radioisotopes Cobalt--Isotopes--Therapeutic use Radiotherapy--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County) Cancer--Research--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County) Cancer--Radiotherapy Cancer--Treatment Hospital beds--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County) Interiors--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County) Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.) Valley Times Collection photographs
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