Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-18
ENGLISH SURGEON CURES
g Of 68 CANCER CASES
BY RAD|UM TREATMENT
Record Compares With Mortality of
100 Per Cent in Preceding Year.
Fourteenth Day of Case Marks
Crisis, His Experience Shows.

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The directors of the British Radium
Corporation. Of which Sir Francis Fox
ls chairman, have issuel a reply to
| Or. Lazarus BarloW's complaint re-
garding the difficulty Of obtaining ia
dunn. They say:
Great efforts were made for re-
serving supply Of radium for the
hospitals OF England, and a consider
able stock was held at their disposal
for over six months, but there were
delays on their part, and German buy
ers stepped in and purchased the en-
IRE stock at higher prices than were
offered by the hospitals here The
Germans also entered into contracts
win the company for considerable
quantities, which will keep the works
OF the company busy for the best part
or the current year.
with view, however, to meeting
the demand of English hospitals and
for the needs Of the surgical and med
zeal world. the company is erecting
new works capable Of increasing the
output fivefold. These works, It is
expected, will be in operation next
April"
Warns Against False Hopes.
Dr. Robert Knox, director OF the
Electrical and Radio therapeutic De-
partment Of the Cancer Hospital, has
Issued warning against false hopes
as result of the reported radium
cures OF cancer. He said to an inter-
viewer to-day:
In regard to the value Of radium
In the treatment of cancer one must
bear in mind that the percentage of
cases receiving benefit from this treat
ment is small. It's action, so far as
we know at present, Is uncertain.
Gases have, or appear to have.
been cured by radium when they
would probably not have received
equal or as much benefit from other
methods of treatment so far as we
know but In the interest OF the public
II must be definitely pointed out that
centape of the cases actually treated.
Until we know more about its ac-
ton, one is certainly not justified In
describing radium as a specific cure
Tor cancer. | depreCate very strongly
the broadcast publicity which is given
by some institutions in this and other
countries to the brilliant successes
obtained in suita BILE cases but which.
after all, form only small percentage
Of the total This publicity gives rise
to great amount of false hope in the
nlluS or patients SUFFERING from cam
Ger, and their friends, and unfortu-
nately they are only too frequently
disappointed"
Value of the x-rays.
Or Knox in a conversation with
representative OF The Times empha-
sized the value of the N-rays in the
treatment of cancer, He said he had
used the X-rays in cancer cases as
we'll as radium, and in many cases
had had equally good results. He be-
lieNed 1t very important to carry out
researches with the object of produC-
ing an X-ray tube which should emit
a ray comparable in hardness" to
the radium ray.
Or. Knox said he had been ham
pered in his work by lack OF radium
but In any case he would have en-
ployed %-rays in cancer treatment
along with radium. The value of
N-rays even at present, he said. was
not fully realized. There was great
future for this treatment. He hoped
II would soon be possible to amply
N-rays IN like fashion to radium.
only the fringe of the ray treatment
of cancer had as yet been touched.