CANCER CURES
/ DUE TO RADIUM. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). LONDON, Jan. 31. Some (ilty-one men and women who a year ago were lying under sentence of death, assembled at (lie College of Surgeons, to celebrate their reprieve. They were cancer patients. They demonstrated to a critical audience of doctors that the efficiency of the radium treatment for many forms ol cancer is no idle boast,. Professor G. Gask, of the University of London, explained that obstinate cases of cancer of the lips, and <>l the tongue, had been arrested in a few months by embedding a hedge of radium needles around the growth. The spread of the infection had been checked by other needles implanted along the lymph vessels.
Dr Gust was careful to stress the fact that great gaps existed in their knowledge of the curative powers ol radium, which, he said, might be a double-edged sword.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 February 1929, Page 5
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