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Show RADIUM CURES CANCER CASES Report of London Institute Shows Success Suc-cess in Treatment of Many Patients In Past Two Years. In the years 1915 and 1916 the Radium Ra-dium Institute of London handled 1,400 cases, giving 12,331 separate treatments. treat-ments. 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 re-ceived Irradiation merely as a precau-: tionary measure. Of the remalnlng: 1,157, the official report says, 172 were-"apparently were-"apparently cured," 52 were "cured," 49S "improved," 215 "not improved," 147 abandoned treatment and 76 were dead. There were 186 cases of rodent nicer, which of all forms of malignant disease dis-ease 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, C02, Ionization snow, etc., "can almost Invariably be cured by one treatment," says the Lancet. |