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Cancer X-ray Machine Unveiled in the Cancer Detection Clinic

A black and white photo of three women before scientific equipment. One, who is younger and in nurses' uniform, appears to be demonstrating the machine to two elegantly dressed older women.

Date: April 7, 1948.
Credit: The Miss Margaret Robins Archives of Women’s College Hospital, Photograph collection, L-00380. Photograph by Gordon H. Jarrett Photography.

Nurse Mary Powell demonstrates the cancer x-ray machine. Faye McLean, Women’s College Hospital (WCH) Board member, and Bette Sandiford, President of the WCH Board, watch the demonstration. This x-ray machine was used to detect lung cancer.