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HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIRFORCE MEMORANDUM FOR WHITE HOUSE ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RADIATION EXPERIMENTS (Attentlon: Gary Stern) 170 Luke Avenue Suite 400 SUBJECT: ACHRE Request 102694-5, UClA Unear Accelerator Per your 28 Oct 94 request, I am forwarding a copy of the RDT&E Project Card for AF 41(657)-369. This is the only lnformatlon we have on this project which Is tltled 'To Study in Man the Effect of 250300 r Total Body Irradiation.' We have performed a Defense Technlcal lnformatlon Center search and If you have any questions please contact me at (202) 767-5078. Chief, Clin lnvestig & Ufe Scl Div Alr Force Mgdlcal Operations Agency Offlce of the Surgeon General
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"TO Study In Man tho Effect of 250-300 r Total 1. Dcoctiption: Ata conrvtcncc on the effects of human6 held in Houston, Texae, on 3 and I Narch 1960, of che Defanaa Atomic Support: Agency, the current conccprs of total body irradiation up t o dosage levels of 200 r facto became apparent as the result of these dl s cuo s fo is. a t dosage levels up t o 200 rl nd f cates that man 1s ablr greater tad la tion doses than was predicted i n the NEPA Secondly, rhers is need for contfnuatfon of .this work nvestigation and analysis of the radiation syndrome i n --eval, is the next logical area of study. ASa rerult of the re-cveluation of chc rad lat lon whale body radiation in Jnder the sponsorship to to lt j rate Far ad, more imports nt, man up cothe 300 r osages re calved by tho In the rsdiothcrapy division of the Deparcment of Radiology a t t h e Medical Center of the Lo9 Angeles campus of the Unlversdty o f Callfornfa, an avcrnga of seventy tumor patients are traaccd daily. approximately 30 t o 50 per y oar are suitable candidatoe ' for co tal body Sr radi atl on. Of these patient B, IA ll patients will have had the benefit of ccepted methods o f mcar therapy before being considered ae candidates for wholo body ir radi a - Z i o n , dxeept for those with leukemia and 80me Lymphomas, where whole body irradiation may be Indicated as a primary fonn o f Also they wlll
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ROT & e PROJECT CARD CONTINUATION in the radiation syndrome at the stipulated dosage A 4 cryetal whole body human counter And a LOO availrllo i n tha Department of Radiology for the This facility would permit the use of short lived previously described reactor for physiological It Fe planned to deliver cha tocal body radlotfon channel anolyzar a r c also evaluation of these pati ene s. investigations of the pac i ante.
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antiro resebrch p rococo l will be thoroughly evaluarec 2 . Pronrc e 8 : None - now taek, and a tondardited for I the in et atl ation of hich will b e otudied