Thomas Rockwell Mackie, radiology professor, long wrestled with an issue central to the treatment of cancer patients: Keeping the cure from killing them. TomoTherapy is a Madison company founded and led by Paul Reckwerdt (left) and Frederick A. Robertson that is helping the capital city benefit from reseach done on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. For years, he and collaborators at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School struggled to come up with a method for better zeroing cell-zapping rays on malignant tumors and off healthy organs.
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