CANCER CURE.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 135, 1 March 1909, Page 5

CANCER CURE.

Without rtatrning to have discovered an actual and universal cure for cancer a number of Paris surgeons who have been working in unison lately described some remarkable results obtained by the use of radium and electricity. Dr Dominici. at a meeting of the league against cancer, presented a number of patients who had been cured of cancer. One very interesting case was that of a man who had a deep growth over the upper jawbone. Dr Dominici inserted a gold case containing o bulb with live milligrams of bromide of radium in the affected tissues, and left it there for four days, with the result that within six weeks the tumour had been cured. A woman who had a tumour inside the lower lip was operated upon, but tb<" tumour reappeared. She was then objected to the radium treatment, and was cured in seven weeks. Dr Wick ham and Dr Dtrgrai showed a number of similar cures. They had treat*:*! sixty-two cases in the space of three and a half years, and only six failed tt< be cured. In a few light, superficial cases an application of one hour sufficed to bring on a core. In profound tumours they applied, so to sp«ak, a cressfire consisting of two bulbs with radium, whose action converged en a given point. In very de<ep tumour* however, radium was tncapahtr of producing rapid improvement. In such cases Dr Keating Hart showed that excellent results could he obtained by mean* of high tension electric spark* acting on cancerous tumour* subjected to the surgeon's knife. This "fulguration." as it were, constituted a new treatment of cancer, which had given remarkable results. The discussion at the meeting madv it clear that no one method could be used universally with success. A ease was described in which a man had Ave tumours on his right leg Four of these disappeared under the treatment. but the fifth grew more maligant. J>r Hart's "fulguration" method was then tried, and the fifth tumour was then rapidly cured. In this case the- man's leg. and pcrharw even his life, was saved by the new processes. The Paris surgeons nave been working on the lines described foe seme years and the results have beep so well established that it was at length agreed to publish them for general information.