CANCER TREATMENT
THE USE OF RADIUM \ ALLI. BEING DOI'B I’Ll) [ Per Press Association ] i HhlSTCJlLßt'll. July 21. “Radiuni treatment < f cancer i.- n the im King pot,” said Dr. I’. Staub' Fostei, who returned lo ChrislciiUK ; yestei'lay, in ,-uuimarising his c\pc:i ence gained at leading hospitals I' Canada and the I idled Shues, whirl he visited during his recent tun. li some cases excelleni results were bei:, obtaine(| with radium, he said, but a prcbablv the line.-t record fur re-rarC in the British i.mpire. the speciaii-i were so unhappy about the icsUhs u" tained with radium that the.v had -eu one of their stuff to “spy out to land” in Europe and dcteriui wtjvther belter <csulls w-iu bmug tained there. I nstvad of diie< t metallic. i ndiuii treatment, radium ('manat ions- evun.u eent -ulistnnees wliieh ' eneax-.l : gold shells and scon b'st then- pol-ene.-wore being u-e.l at the nieinorinl Im.jiital in New Yurk. A similar inethi' had been in n-e in Ghristehureh, sat. Dr. Foster, the shells being ■•planted' irv means of tubes iu purls ol 1., body whieh were dilli> ull of ess. . deep X rar treatnient had als • I’Cc: det eloped in New York, eoneeri.iu w hich research workers v cro very hop< ful.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 169, 22 July 1935, Page 6
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206CANCER TREATMENT Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 169, 22 July 1935, Page 6
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