TREATMENT OF CANCER.
RADIUM WITH X-RAYS.
GERMAN PROFESSORS' REPORT
Australian nlicl N.Z. Press Association. LONDON. Feb. 5
The Berlin correspondent of the Morning Post says Professors Voltz and Doederlcin, who are members of the League of Nations Radiological Commission, told the Bavarian Gynaecological Society that when cancer was arrested in its early stages the proportion of patients cured by radiological treatment was 50.2 per cent., compared with 35.6 per cent, of those surgically treated. Moreover, 15.4 per cent, of those declared to bo hopeless from the surgical point of view were cured by radiology.
A British United Press Association message from Munich says the professors asserted that cancer can be cured painlessly by tho use of radium in a special combination with the X-rays. In fact, it was tho treatment of the futuie, and certainly would not bo inoro expensi\e than surgical treatment-
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20174, 7 February 1929, Page 9
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