CURING CANCER.
ATEEMPT WITH RADIUM
'Times'— -'Sydney Sun' Special Cables,
(Recfewl Dec. 30, 8.5 a.m.) PARIS. Dec. 29. Radium valued at £20,000 has been temporarily embedded in the left shoulder of Mr Robert Bremner, a New Jersey Congressman, as an attempted cure of extensive cancerous growth. Dr Howard Atwood Kelly operated, inserting the radium in eleven rubber-coated tubes inside twelve incisions, aided by cocaine. It is expected the treatment will result in the degeneration of the cancer cells, solely by gamma rays, alpha beia rays being filtered out.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 31 December 1913, Page 5
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88CURING CANCER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 31 December 1913, Page 5
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