RADIUM BOARD TREATMENT

Taranaki Daily News, 27 August 1930, Page 11

RADIUM BOARD TREATMENT

LONDON’S CANCER CASES BETTER RESULTS OBTAINED. RESEARCH INTO CAUSE HOPEFUL. (By Wire —Special to News.) Auckland, La,st Night. The opinion that there was undoubtedly an improvement in the results being obtained by the treatment of iancer with radium as the application of the correct amount was being better understood, but that surgical treatment at an early stage of the disease still remained the method which gave a good prospect of cure, was expressed by Dr. Eisdell Moore, an Auckland surgeon, who returned by the lonic after., spending seven months ■abroad. Dr. Moore said J;e felt if was reasonable to conclude that the discovery', of the cause, of cancer was “just around flic corner” and that it would .be found in the. next.. ten years. Ln Lon-, don Dr. Moore spent, many weeks, at various ' clinics,. watching... particularly the work London doctors were .doing with radium in cancer eases.

Westminster hospital, he said, now had an annexe where treatment by radium bomb was carried out. The bomb comprised four grammes of radium, valued, at .£56,639. It permitted the radium..to. he used at a distance of some inches from the patient instead of being inserted in the growth. If the method was ; successful it would allow deeper;-.seated .growths tp . be treated without surgical exposure. .