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Division of Oak Ridge
Institute of Nuclear Studies in 1949, where he researched the
applications of radiation in the treatment of cancer and other malignant diseases. He retired as
Division chairman in 1962. A compendium of his writing entitled "A
Chronology of Nuclear Medicine" was published by Robert R. Butaine in
September 1990. Brucer
was educated at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago. He
graduated with a Bachelor of Science and a Doctor of Medicine. He was an intern
at Mallory Institute of Pathology in Boston. During the late 1930s he studied human
physiological responses to the increasing pace and changing nature of modern
life, including blood pressure and heart conditions. He also identified correlations between body
shape and blood pressure. Brucer
joined the United States Army in
1942, and was released in 1946 as a lieutenant colonel. He served as surgeon of
the Airborne Command at Camp Mackall, North
Carolina. He
then joined the University of Texas' Medical School staff. In 1949, Brucer
became the Chairman of the Medical Division of the Oak Ridge Institute of
Nuclear Studies, where he researched the application of radiation in the
treatment of cancers and other malignant diseases. In
1951, Brucer directed tests of the use of radioactive cobalt in prospective
radiotherapy. The instruments used were manufactured by General Electric. In 1952, Brucer was supervising a
hospital staff of 60 people, including doctors, physicists, radiologists,
nurses and others. The hospital was sponsored by 29 southern American
universities. Patients volunteered to receive experimental therapies at the
hospital. They were given atomic "cocktails" to drink and injections
of radio-isotopes, and became temporarily radioactive. While not guaranteed that the treatments would
be successful, patients were assured that none of the new medicines would cause
harm. Brucer was also involved in discussions regarding the
establishment of a nuclear reactor at the University of Houston por
the production of radio-isotopes in 1952. In 1953, Brucer gave
testimony to a House Commerce Committee on the medical applications of nuclear
energy. The Committee hoped to establish what the Atomic
Energy Commission was achieving in the field of nuclear medicine.
In 1954, a new radiotherapy device using cesium as the gamma radiation source was scheduled to be
tested in Rockford, Illinois. Brucer was a spokesperson for the project, which
was funded by the Atomic Energy Commission The machine was to be tested on
animal subjects prior to its application to human cancer patients. The device
benefited from military research in computer control, and was pioneering in its
degree of automation In 1955, Brucer
dedicated a new cobalt-based radiotherapy machine at the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles, California. The dedication was made with Senator J. William Fulbright and
industrialist Paul G. Hoffman. Another was dedicated a City of Hope an "iron maiden" containing radioactive sand which was
tested for the treatment of breast cancer. That year he also announced the
intention to produce cesium-137 for radiotherapy by 1957. Brucer
told a conference that the use of radio-isotopes becoming increasingly commonplace. He said
that shipments of radioactive drugs from Oak Ridge numbered 50,000 units of
radio-iodine, 50,000 units of radio-gold and 13,000 units of radio-phosphorus
each month.
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