Show Daily Health Service I B By DR MORRIS FISHBEIN In Great Britain the Medical Research Re Re- search carch Council makes available each year ear an analysis of the uses of ra ra- ra- ra When radium was as first introduced by y the Curies Curles it seemed likely that it t eventually would become exceedingly exceed exceed- important in treatment of can can- Such expectations have been fulfilled Radium has not however developed developed developed devel devel- into a cure-all cure or a method of treatment for or all sorts of d diseases se Indeed the limitations of its use we ev even n in cancer are arc beginning ginning to be beather rather ather well defined The most recent report from the British investigators indicates that radium has certain uses in each form of f cancer A cure in a case e of cancer cancer can- can canI I cr is believed to be an instance in which the patient Ls is alive and free from rom cancer at the end of five live years rears after the treatment is given w a 0 o oIt It must be remembered that perSons per- per ons Sons with cancer are usually in their advanced years and that therefore their heir death rates from causes outside of cancer arc high In cancer of the breast In women the he evidence indicates that the Ideal treatment is surgical removal followed followed fol- fol lowed owed by use of or radium cr ir X-rays X or orif of if both If H required In cancer of the tongue the immediate application of radium seems to be helpful but the ultimate results are not exceedingly good Unfortunately the results i of surgery sur surgery gery of cancer of oC the tongue are also not so ver very good Cancer of or the glands associated with cancer of the tongue usually is treated b by surgical removal with radium 4 0 4 The Thc most successful use o of radium seems to o be in the early stages of oC cancer of the female organs associated asso asso- dated with childbirth The results in n such cases are good In fact ra ra- ra seems to be helpful even in those ca cases cs in which operation is impossible im im- un- un possible poss In the meantime further advances in use we of ot radium in various forms of cancer ancer depend on en an n increase of our knowledge as to th the nature of the action of radium and md of its particular effects on various types of growing cells cello in the human body |