X-RAYS AND CANCER.

New Zealand Mail, 22 January 1902, Page 46

X-RAYS AND CANCER.

It would seem that medical science lias at last found a remedy for tliat dreaded disease, cancer, and the uen cannot be too widely made kilos Writing to the London "'Standard’'® ‘ltli December last, the surgeon to lb I’ontgen Hay department of the Loadon Skin Hospital, Eitzroy square, says : —‘‘ln reference to many paragraphs in the daily papers a.-> to the casa of cancer cured by Dr Hutchins, of Atalanta, in America, may I be allowed to point out, for the benefit of English sufferers, that English surgeons hare also treated and cured cancer by the X-Rays, at an earlier date than American surgeons ? The cancer of the face referred to was evidently either epithelioma, or rodent ulcer, forms which differ slightly from cancer of the breast, of which latter we are now treating a case with definite improvement. The cancers of the face which have been cured by the X-Rays have rapidly improved from the commencement of treatment, and my experience of their progress is similar to that of Dr Hutchins. In the application of tha X-Rays I firmly believe, after twelve months’, usage in a variety of cases, that we have the most therapeutic agent in the cure of can-, cor.”