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THE CURE OF CANCER EFFICIENCY OF RADIUM (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) LONDON, Jan. 31. Fifty-one men and women who, a year ago, were lying under sentence of death, were assembled at the College of Surgeons to celebrate their reprieve. They are cancer patients and it was demonstrated to a critical audience of doctors that the efficiency of radium treatment in many forms of cancer is no idle boast.
Professor G. ’Cask, of the University of London, explained that obstinate cases of cancer of the lip and tongue had been arrested in a few months by embedding a hedge of radium needles around the growth. The spread of the infection had been checked by other needles implanted along the lymph vessels. Professor (.ask was careful to stress the fact that great gaps existed in the knowledge of the curative powers of radium, which may. be said, be a double-edged sword.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16866, 1 February 1929, Page 7
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