TREATMENT OF CANCER
"IN THE MELTING POT"
RESEARCH IN AMERICA
(Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day ! ‘Thulium treatment of cancer is in the melting pot,’’ said Dr. P. Stanley Foster, who has just returned to Christchurch, in summarising the experience gained at leading! hospitals in Canada and the United States of America, which be visited during a recent tour. In some, eases excellent results were being obtained wit j radium, be said, but at. the Toronto General Hospital, which hud probably the finest record for research in the British Empire, specialists were so unhappy about the results obtained with radium that they had sent one of their staff to “spy out the land’’ in Europe and determine whether better results were being obtained there.
Instead of . direct metallic radium treatment, radium, emanations —evanescent substances which' vvero, encased in gold shells arid soon lost their potency—were being used at a memorial hospital in New York. A similar method had been in use in Christchurch, said Dr. Foster, the shells being “planted” by means of tubes in parts of the body which were difficult of access. A deep X-ray treatment had . also, been developed in New York concerning which research workers were very.' hopeful.,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18764, 22 July 1935, Page 6
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