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Show oo RADIUM CURES CANCER. Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 16 Stimulus has been given to the movement for a radium bank jn this city by the announcement an-nouncement made last night by Dr Howard A. Kelly of Johns Hopkins university and Dr Robert Abbo of New York that the word cure can now be properly applied to the ra dium form of treatment of cancer Physicians expressed belief that the power of the Gama rays of radium over certain forms of cancer Is not only wonderful, but almcwt unbelievable. unbeliev-able. Dr. Kelly exhibited photographs of patients before and after being cured and told of the cure In forty-eight hours of a man suffering from malignant malig-nant cancerous growths of the face and head Tho physicians were careful to state that the cure can at present be applied only to superficial cancer in Its early stages What the mysterious element may accomplish In advanced and internal cases is a matter for further experiment, they said |