THE USE OF RADIUM.
EQUIPMENT IN SYDNEY. AN APPEAL MADE FOR FUNDS. [from our own correspondent. ] SYDNEY, Dec. 29. Considerable interest it at present centred on radium, owing to the appeal by Sydney Hospital to the people of tho State to subscribe £ISOO for the thorough equipment of its radium department. More radium is required for the treatment of women who suffer from disease which will not yield to surgical operation. While the cure of 53 cases of cancer of the skin in Wellington, is pointed to, Sydney Hospital claim? to bo tho first institution in Australia and New Zealand to use radium extensively for the treatment of skin cancer. Radium' has been successfully employed at that institution in close upon 2800 cases of skin cancer, apart from tho cure of over 300 cases of skin disease. The hospital possesses £4OOO worth of radium, which was purchased at the institute in Paris. As very few institutions aro able to secure this potent and wonderful element, owing to its enormous cost, people from all over the State visit Sydney Hospital for special treatment. The radium was sent to last year to bo reconditioned, at a cost 'of £SOO.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19217, 5 January 1926, Page 7
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197THE USE OF RADIUM. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19217, 5 January 1926, Page 7
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