TREATMENT OF CANCER.
WORK IN COMMONWEALTH.
(bt cable— pbxss association— coptbioht.) (australian and n.z. cable association.) / CANBERRA, November 9. In the House of Eepreaentatives the Assistant Minister for Health, Sir Neville Howse, announced that the Commonwealth had purchased 10 grammes of radium, valued at £IOO,OOO. He explained that there was, among Federal Ministers, a desire that there should be no delay in deciding whether the extraordinary claims made, particularly in the United States, for the radium treatment, were justified. It was recognised that there had been an alarming spread of cancer in Australia, and, in fact, all over the world. The Ministry was anxious to take every possible step to alleviate or cure the condition of those suffering from this One of the leading exponents of radium treatment in Great Britain, Dr. Burrows, would arrive in Australia next month to place the radium treatment «•} the best possible basis in the Commonwealth.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19154, 10 November 1927, Page 11
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