RADIUM FOR CANCER.

Waikato Argus, Volume XXXV, Issue 5507, 13 January 1914, Page 3

RADIUM FOR CANCER.

CABLEGRAMS

United Press Association. By Electric Telegraph-Oopyright

Received 10.35 p.m., 12th. London, January 12. An important letter signed by Sir Alfred Gould, Sir John Bland-Sut-ton, Dr. John Murray, Dr. Thomas Kellock, and Dr. Comyns Berkeley, surgeons at the Middlesex Hospital, has been issued. This states that they were surprised to read the communication in the Times on Thursday purporting to give the results obtained at the hospital by the radium treatment of cancer patients. All the patients at this hospital received for inoperable cancer are under the sole caros of the honorary stall', upon whom rest the entire responsibility for the treatment adopted. Th2 writers desire to point out that the statement in the Times was made without communicating with those responsible for the treatment: of these patients. Although the results from the radium treatment are most hopeful, they do not justify the statement that "We have a cancer cure," but the whole profession is anxious for a larger supply of r.dium, and regrets that its scarcity and cost make its genera! use impossible.