TREATMENT OF CANCER
RADIUM FUTURE OBSCURE IMPRESSIONS FROM OVERSEAS. EVANESCENT SUBSTANCES USED. OPTIMISM ABOUT DEEP X-RAY. By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. "The radium treatment of cancer is in the melting pot,” said Dr. P. Stanley Foster, who returned to Christchurch yesterday in summarising the experience he gained at leading hospitals in Canada and the United States which he visited during his recent tour. In some cases excellent results were being obtained with radium, he said, but at the Toronto General Hospital, which had probably the flnest record for research in the British Empire, specialists were so unhappy about the results obtained with radium that they had sent one of tfifeir 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 were encased'in gold shells and soon lost their potency—were being used at the memorial hospital at New York. A similar method had been in use at Christchurch, said Dr. Foster, the shells being “planted” by means of tubes in the parte of the body which were difficult of access.
A deep X-ray treatment had also been developed at New’ York, concerning which research workers were very hopeful.
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 July 1935, Page 7
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