VALUE OF RADIUM
IN TREATMENT OF CANCER DEMONSTRATION BY PATIENTS BEFORE CRITICAL AUDIENCE OF DOCTORS (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph —Copyright.) (Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) (Rec. January 31, 11.30 p.m.) London, January 31. Fifty-one men and women who a year ago were lying under sentence of deatli assembled at the College of Surgeons to celebrate their reprieve. They were the cancer patients, and demonstrated to a critical audience of doctors that the efficiency of radium treatment in many forms of cancer is no idle boakt. i* . Professor G. Gask, of the University of London, explained that obstinate cases of cancel - of the lips and tongue had been arrested in a few months by embedding a hedge of radium needles around the growth. The spread of infection was checked by other needles implanted along the lymph vessels? Professor Gask was careful to stress the fact that great gaps existed in the knowledge of the cilrat've powers of radium, which maj’ be/ double-edged sword.,
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 109, 1 February 1929, Page 11
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162VALUE OF RADIUM Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 109, 1 February 1929, Page 11
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