Show USED IN CURE OF CANCER berlin and other cities accumulating radium anT for purpose berlin the municipality of berlin Is following the example of three or four other german cities ind and is 13 making arrangements tor for obtaining a sup pl ot of radium and in mew of the increasing importance which they are obtaining in the fight against cancer directors of hospitals under the municipality have been ask ed to make detailed reports on the tha subject while it is Is an undoubted tact fact that german medical authorities are gron growing more inclined to favor radium in their treatment of cancer it must be pointed out that none of 0 them regards radium as an absolute cure and that the greatest caution must still be used before any definite judgment can be passed on oil its efficiency professor czerny whose name Is highest among cancer authorities maintains that surgical operation in tho the early stages of the tha disease Is su parlor to an other method ot of treat ment and certainly gives the best prospect of permanent relief relict the protes sors is extremely cautious in his bis judg ment on radium while admitting that in certain stages ot of cancer and where the disease can be easil reached ed ra alum unquestionably Is a poN powerful erful pal |