DEBT TO RADIUM
CURED CANCER PATIENTS KNOWLEDGE INCOMPLETE (United Service) * LONDON, Thursday. Fifty-one men and women who, a year ago, were threatened with death from cancer, assembled at the College of Surgeons to celebrate their reprieve. These patients demonstrated to a critical audience of doctors that the efficiency of the radium treatment for many forms of cancer is no idle boast. Professor G. Gask, of the University of London, explained that obstinate cases of cancer of the lips and 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. The professor was careful to lav stress on the fact that great gaps exist in the knowledge of the curative powers of radium, which he said might be a two-edged sword.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 577, 1 February 1929, Page 9
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144DEBT TO RADIUM Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 577, 1 February 1929, Page 9
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