CURE OF CANCER.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1378, 2 March 1912, Page 5

CURE OF CANCER.

RADIUM'S VALUE. By Telesr&pi-Pr«M lm«cU.tlon-Co»rrtglit London, February 29. The Governors of the Cancer Hospital report that while radium is valuable in the'treatment of cancer, it does not replace operative measures.

A demonstration of the effects of radium on cancer proved the feature of the proceedings or the British Medical Association at a meeting in London last year, whore the distinguished Doctor Louis Wickham of Paris—ono of tho world's highest authorities on radium therapy—dealt with the subject exhaustively. Those professional men who heard Doctor Louis Wickham's lecture, and who saw the beautiful specimens and photographs he exhibited can no longer doubt, says the London "Medical Journal," that under certain favourable conditions radium oan most certainly cure cancer. Tho chief necessary conditions are that the growth be accessible and that it shall bo small and localised. The larger the growth the more limited will be the beneficial effects of the applications of radium. Hence ovory effort should be directed to detect such growths in the earliest 6tages possible. To quote from tho columns of our contemporary: ""Under these circumstances, it naturally follows that tho best results that have boen obtainod by tho radium treatment in cancer have been where the disease has attacked exposed parts, such as the skin of the face and hands; also cancer of tho tongue, which is, of course, readily accessible. Cancer of such parts can be detected from its very earliest stages, and owing to the facility with which radium oan bo applied to them gives the best chance of a cure by its effects."