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Therac-25, the Story of a Deadly Radiotherapy Machine

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In 1985, a state-of-the-art radiation therapy device called the THERAC-25 started blasting holes through patients' bodies, leading to the world’s first death by radiation treatment overdose. It killed two more people before anyone knew what was going wrong. Why?
 

Today we are looking at the Therac-25 Radiotherapy unit and its victims, however unlike other radiotherapy units on this channel the death toll was equated to a fault with the units software giving dangerous doses of radiation.
 
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