DOCTORS DIFFER
TREATMENT of cancer THE VALUE OF RADIOLOGY (Peb United Press Association i INVERCARGILL, July 22. \ "Dr Stanley Foster’s statement is very ' sweeping. He seems to look at matters entirely from the surgical viewpoint, said Dr C. C. Anderson, commenting on Dr Foster’s utterance regarding the radium treatment of cancer, which he declared to be “ in the melting pot.” “ It is interesting to note,” Dr Anderson continued, “ that his impressions are practically contradicted by those' of Dr A. S. Moody, of Dunedin, - who, despite the fact that he also is surgically minded, seems to find a use for radium in all grades of those cancers which are known to respond favourably to radium treatment. Notable clinics of the Old World have shown that superficial cancers, such as cancers of the womb and tongue, will respond to radiation treatment just as well as to surgery, if not even better. Modern surgical operations for the removal of cancers have been developed to such an extent that it would seem almost impossible for them to be further improved upon, whereas radiation methods are comparatively youthful. Doctors trust that as knowledge grows it will be possible to afford patients even greater hope of recovery than' can be offered to-day.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22630, 23 July 1935, Page 9
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