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Feb. 28 7A NEW HOSPITAL BRANCH IS LIKE VISION OF THE FUTURE LATEST IDEAS IN CANCER RESEARCH tRX INCORPORATED Exceeding the wildest drenme of Florence Nightingale, the new Sutton, Surrey, branch of the famous Royal Hereden H, spital ie a model of comfort and functional modernity. Here, every new development, fro, radiation equipment for oentor treatment to new materiels in furniture Ate been incorporated. The stark white walls of old have ziven way to pleesinz postal murals, and carpets add to the generally hotel-like atmoephere. Communications and lieieon are emphasised: pneumatio mosse, e-carriers, individual phone. for patiente to cell the nun. and a etaff, calling system. The Royal Marsden became the first hospital in this oouetry to use artificial radio-ieotopes in the treatment of a patient. That was in 1948, but since then, as stronger link. bete been forged between medicine and science, P nor branoh to promote oanoer research was needed. After many delays, the present Sutton site toe squired in 1980. By 1960, plans had been drawn up, and the neoeseary funds made available. 0raduolly the building, o oombination of bricks and concrete. rose from the chalk sub-coil. Now, three years later, the nurse. are admiring the well-lit, glass-penelled wards; the two, huge eleotron-volt linear accelerators for the cancer treatment, which ere buried deep in the radiation-proof ground. And in the laboratories, soientiets oontinue the endless quest to make the word clamor leee terrifying to man

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