CURES BY RADIUM
-= « AUCKLANDER'S INVESTIGATIONS. Intorestuig observations upon tile extension of the use of radium and X-rays in experimental ond curative 111 Britain were nude, to an Auckland "Herald" representative by a well-known Auckland medical man, who bus just returned from a trip abroad. While .in England ho made special investigations in connection w.th the cancer research work being conducted at Middlesex Hospital. This work had been liberally aided by a Government loan of live grammes of radium, a larger quantity than has ever before been available for such a purpose, (ind of an approxi; mate value of .£IOO,OCO. Several highly interesting and important discoveries luid been, made in regard to the immunising of animals from cancer,, stated the doctor. It had been found that a brief daily exposure to X-rays immunised them against inoculation, also that if the growth of cancer, before inoculation, was submitted to radiation it withered and disappeared. These discoveries' v ere regarded by the medical profession as highly important in the study of the treatment of the scourge of cancer. The percentage of cancer cures by radium treatment was not as jet very great, the very limited supply of radium hitherto available having hampered investigation 011 the wider scale now possible. Cases operable were still being treated surgically, und cases inoperable by radium. Better results were now being obtained from the extension of the use of radium ancl X-rays in cases of cancer and other diseases, however, and the result of work being done at Middlesex Hospital was being watched with intense interest by the medical vratcrnity thioughout the world. ■ The use of radium, continued the doctor, was gradually being extended I o the treatment of a wide variety of diseases hitherto treated by X-rays, such as goitre, skin diseases nnd tubercular tiouble. It was also being used to ft certain extent in the treatment r,f certain conditions following wounds and war injuries, particularly in cases ol stillness resulting from the matting of tissues, movement being restored where itU massage and other treatment hud .'ailed. New methods of filtration of radium rays had also been carefully studied, with the result that the harmful rays wh eh in the past had frequently caused serious injury to those being treated had now been largely eliminated. •
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 151, 22 March 1920, Page 4
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378CURES BY RADIUM Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 151, 22 March 1920, Page 4
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