“CAMMAVOLT”

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11826, 6 January 1933, Page 3

“CAMMAVOLT”

.MACnfXE TO REPLACE RADIUM. MAY CURE CANCER. ER{'.MANTLE. December 24. Details of an X-r-i-- rdant. stated to he capable of producing a voltage of POO.OOO. and having the inter,sitv of a considerable quantity of radium, were given by Air. H. -C AD'elen Schulte, a young Gorman X-ray engineer, who rein rued from Europe today. The j hint now established in one of the largest Berlin hospitals was tiie outcome of scientific research in deep-ray therapy lor cancer, and the necessity felt, particularly by the poorer countries, such as Germany, for pivdumng a "synthetic" radium ray. "Radium rays have the equivalent tension of a milh ;; to two million volts. v ' said Air. Schulte, "and, the X-rays used in Australia for ray therapy a voltage of 2‘:<).oQo. "The voltage of the new machine, tiie Garumavoit, is. then, almost live times as powerful as. existing plants"Tiie whole radiation of the plant could not he used. of course. and much of the voltage is filtered away. ‘The value oi the machine, which would cost about £ISC() in Australian currency can he estimated readily. Under the present radium ireatmciit. sometimes four grammes, worth £3;;,00(1. are used on one patient fm weeks at a time, so that the treatment is uneconomic and restricted. "The Go tuna volt works two tubes of one machine, which can Tie operated for eight hours at a time. Each patient would require, say. one hour's treatment daily so that 16 patients could he treated in the eight hours'

Tuny Air. Aliudeu Schulte, who was in Australia for five years previously, wont abroad to study the. latest developments in 'leap X-ray therapy. He states that (hero have boon several temporary cures of earner by the now technique. It would not he known for live or ten years whether the euros were permanent, but it was believed that, by lessening the radiation doses anti ox lending them over longer periods, as was possible when radium was no longer a consideration, more complete eliminations of growths was possible. Radiologists wore honei'itl tliat the years would prove that Hie cures exported h v tlie new plant were completely permanent.