Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-01-16 | Page 13 | Danger in X Ray Treatment of Cancer Reduced by Invention

Danger in Ray X-Ray Treatment of I Cancer Reduced d by Inv Invention By ISRAEL KLEIN Science Editor N NEA EA Service The little success science has achieved In Its long search for the cure of cancer cancer has In Itself been perfected to a high degree of safet safety Cancer is a mysterious disease which manifests Itself In the form of a malignant growth of new sue What causes it us Jis although Dr V V. G. G Gye BrItish cancer specialist contends he has succeeded In Isolating the minute germ that mIght be the cause of thIs dIsease Despite the pr prevalent valent ignorance about cancer however some of the themore themore more obvious forms are being attacked at- at tacked by the latest methods of science science ence with some success These are the tumors that can be reached easily ly by applications ot of rays X-rays or radium and by means of the surgeons surgeon's surgeons surgeon's sur- sur geons geon's scalpel It Is in the use of the X ray that George Ceorge director of the basic scIence rEsearch laboratory of the University of CIncinnati has succeeded succeeded suc- suc in perfecting a safe and yet more powerful and effective treat treat- ment SAFE AND POWERFUL Heretofore rays X-rays applied to a tumor were thrown out of a vacuum tube In the shape ot of a cone or abroad u a broad beam the base of which struck the patient The deadly rays affected not the cancerous Us- Us sue but the tte healthy matter sur- sur tIe the growth This caused the surrounding healthy tissue to become susceptible to the disease by irritation of the tIssue Many u a scIentist has fallen victim t to the deadly rays X-rays with whIch he worked for the cure of others has invented an Instrument that inverts the cone of rays X-rays as they thel are shot out of the vacuum vacuum tube so that the apex and not the base of the cone strikes the patient He is able abie to dIrect a point at the very tumor itself without danger of affecting the surrounding tissue CONCENTRATES POWER I Even of greater greatel benefit is the new Instruments Instrument's capacity to concentrate the ra rays s of the cone into the point whIch is placed dIrectly on the affeCted at- at part SperUs instrument confines the rays to one powerful and effective point The result is greater safety for forthe forthe the patient greater chance for a quick removal of the affected part anti and complete use of the rays X-rays emitted by the instrument rhe smallest cancerous spots heretofore thought too tiny to at- at tacIt with the broad cone of rays X-rays for fear of endangerIng the rest of the body now can be removed safely sate safe ly and quickly Thus cancer ot of this sort at Its very begInnIng ot of Infection infection tion may be stopped from spread spread-