Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1917 — RADIUM CURES CANCER CASES [ARTICLE]

RADIUM CURES CANCER CASES

Report of London Institute Shows Success in Treatment of Many Patients in Past Two Years. In the years 1915 and 1916 the Radium institute of London handled 1,400 cases, giving 12,331 separate treatments. These were of many forms of cancer and of skin diseases. Of these, 87 were not treated, 123 were treated too recently to record results, 33 received irradiation merely as a precautionary measure. Of the remaining 1,157, the official report says, 172 “apparently cured,” 52 were “cured,” 498 “Improved,” 215 “not improved,” 147 abandoned treatment and 76 were dead. There were 186 cases of rodent ulcer, which of all forms of malignant disease is most amenable to the action of radium. Lesions which do not affect mucous membrane, bone, or cartilage and which have not previously been treatment with Xray, CO2, ionization, snow, etc., “can almost invariably be cured by one treatment,” says the