Cancer research today : tumour diagnosis: physical methods.

Date:
1974
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Description

Here, Boag, Jones, McReady and Taylor discuss different physical methods of tumour diagnosis in cancer. The cassette is accompanied by the following summary: "The programme illustrates four new techniques for detecting malignant tumours: xeroradiography - a method of taking x-ray pictures which greatly enhances contrast and is partiCancercularly useful in breast radiographs; thermography - which can sometimes reveal an underlying malignant growth by a significant change in the skin temperature pattern; ultrasound - which can map out the internal structure of an organ such as the liver from the echose produced in it: new radioactive substances - which are preferentially retained by growing tumours and therefore reveal their location by the gamma rays they emit."

Publication/Creation

London : University of London Audio-Visual Centre, 1974.

Physical description

1 videocassette (VHS) (42.44 min.) : sound, black and white, PAL.
1 videocassette (Digibeta) (42.44 min.) : sound, black and white, PAL.
1 DVD (42.44 min.) : sound, black and white, PAL.

Notes

This video is one of around 310 titles, originally broadcast on Channel 7 of the ILEA closed-circuit television network, given to Wellcome Trust from the University of London Audio-Visual Centre shortly after it closed in the late 1980s. Although some of these programmes might now seem rather out-dated, they probably represent the largest and most diversified body of medical video produced in any British university at this time, and give a comprehensive and fascinating view of the state of medical and surgical research and practice in the 1970s and 1980s, thus constituting a contemporary medical-historical archive of great interest. The lectures mostly take place in a small and intimate studio setting and are often face-to-face. The lecturers use a wide variety of resources to illustrate their points, including film clips, slides, graphs, animated diagrams, charts and tables as well as 3-dimensional models and display boards with movable pieces. Some of the lecturers are telegenic while some are clearly less comfortable about being recorded; all are experts in their field and show great enthusiasm to share both the latest research and the historical context of their specialist areas.

Creator/production credits

Presented by Professor JW Boag, Dr Colin Jones, Dr Kenneth Taylor and Dr VR McReady. Made by University of London Audio-Visual Centre. Made for British Postgraduate Medical Federation.

Copyright note

University of London

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