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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?
The Therac-25 was not a device anyone was happy to see. It was a radiation therapy machine. In layman’s terms it was a “cancer zapper”; a linear accelerator with a human as its target. Using …
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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