RADIUM TREATMENT
VARIABLE RESULTS [Fxb Ukited 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 th* experience gained at the leading hospitals in Canada and the United States which he visited during his recent tour, in some cases excellent results wer* being obtained witb radium, he- said, but at the Toronto General Hospital, which had probably the finest; record for research in the British Empire, the specialists were so unhappy about' th* results obtained with radium that they seat one of their staff to f< spy out th* 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 potency, 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 of access. A deep X-ray treatment had also been developed in New York' concerning whicl* research workers were very hopefuL
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Evening Star, Issue 22087, 22 July 1935, Page 13
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194RADIUM TREATMENT Evening Star, Issue 22087, 22 July 1935, Page 13
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