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She had been referred to Grubbe as a last-ditch measure, more to satisfy his experimental curiosity than to provide any clinical benefit.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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She had been referred to Grubbe as a last-ditch measure, more to satisfy his experimental curiosity than to provide any clinical benefit.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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She had been referred to Grubbe as a last-ditch measure, more to satisfy his experimental curiosity than to provide any clinical benefit.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Here were a clothes cupboard, and an arm-chair, and even a chest of drawers; and on these drawers a polished metal plate had been placed, whereon was engraved the word "Grubbe," and this was the name of the noble family that had lived in the house of old.
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Inspired by the response, even if it had been temporary, Grubbe began using X-ray therapy to treat scores of other patients with local tumors.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Grubbe had stumbled on another important observation: X-rays could only be used to treat cancer locally, with little effect on tumors that had already metastasized.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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In 1896, barely a year after Röntgen had discovered his X-rays, a twenty-one-year-old Chicago medical student, Emil Grubbe, had the inspired notion of using X-rays to treat cancer.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Flamboyant, adventurous, and fiercely inventive, Grubbe had worked in a factory in Chicago that produced vacuum X-ray tubes, and he had built a crude version of a tube for his own experiments.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Emil Grubbe had already encountered the first of these limits with his earliest experimental treatments: since X-rays could only be directed locally, radiation was of limited use for cancers that had metastasized.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Emil Grubbe, who had been exposed to somewhat weaker X-rays, also succumbed to the deadly late effects of chronic radiation.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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