“IN MELTING POT”
Radium Treatment of Cancer
MEDICAL MAN’S VIEW By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, July 21. “Radium treatment of cancer is in the melting pot,” said Dr. P. Stanley Foster, who returned to Christchurch yesterday, in summarising the experience he gained at leading hospitals in Canada and the United States which he visited during a recent tour. In some cases excellent results were being obtained with radium, he said, but at the Toronto general hospital, which had probably the finest record for research in the British Empire, specialists were so unhappy about the results obtained with radium that they had sent one of their staff to “spy out the land” in Europe and determine whether better results were being obtained there.
Instead of direct metallic radium treatment radium emanations —evanescent substances which were encased in gold shells and soon lost their i>otency —were being used at the Memorial Hospital in New York. A similar method had been in use in Christchurch, said Dr. Foster, shells being “planted” by means of tubes in parts of the body which were difficult oC access.
Deep x-ray treatment had also been developed in New York concerning which research workers were very hopeful.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 252, 22 July 1935, Page 8
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