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RADIUM AND CANCER

REMARKABLE DEMONSTRATION Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, LONDON', January 31. Fifty-one men and women, who a year ago were lying under .sentence of death, assembled at the _ College of Surgeons to celebrate their reprieve. They were cancer patients, and it was demonstrated to a critical audience by doctors that the efficiency of radium treatment in many forms of cancer is no idle boast. Professor Cf. Cask, of the University of London, explained that obstinate cases of cancer of the lips and tongue had been arrested in a few months by embedding a hedge of radium needles around the growth, while the spread of the infection was checked by other needles implanted along the lymph vessels. Professor Cask was careful to. stress the fact that great gaps existed in the knowledge of the curative powers of radium, which might be a doubleedged sword.—Australian Press Association.

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Evening Star, Issue 20089, 1 February 1929, Page 6

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RADIUM AND CANCER Evening Star, Issue 20089, 1 February 1929, Page 6

RADIUM AND CANCER Evening Star, Issue 20089, 1 February 1929, Page 6