RADIUM FOR CANCER
AUSTRALIAN SUPPLY
SUBDIVISION PROCESS Australia is to be deprived temporarily of about one-tenth of its radium supply. Tho Government has decided, on the recommendation of tho recent cancer conference, to mako tho supply more efficient for tho treatment of gynaecological cancer by submitting it to a special process of subdivision. Radium treatment in the early stages of the disease has been strikingly successful, but the cancer confer once held that the 720 milligrams used for this purpose, and in the possession of tho Cancer Research Committee of tho Sydney University, would bo much more useful if subdivided and made available in five and ten milligram platinum tubes, and if the platinum screenage on certain other radium containers were increased. While the Commonwealth radium laboratory in Melbourne can carry out the screenage work, the subdivision can be done only in Belgium. Cabinet, •therefore, has agreed that the 720 milligrams now in Sydney should he shipped to Belgium for this process.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21471, 20 April 1933, Page 10
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