The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-03-18
RADIUM AND CANCER.

There was pending In congress at
its recent adjournment blll relat-
ing to radium bearing ores that was
worthy Of enactment into law, as It's
purpose was to give the federal gov
ernment greater facilities In CONTROL
ing aud curing humaulys most ma.
lignant disease cancer
4 carefully estimate shows THAT
continually about 100000 persons In
the United States are afflicted with
cancer, and that the number Of deaths
each year is close 10 10000. liadlum
has been shown To hc the most cficr
tive agency known 10 science In the
cure Of the cancer Espcclnlly has its
use been successful In the eOrller
stages Of the diseuSc. Its two great
est living demonstrators In this coun.
Try are nr Howard Kelly Of Balti
more and Dr Robert Abbc senior sur
geou Of ST. lukc's hospital In New
York city nr. Kelly Is operating
with about ! gram, aud Dr. Abhr
with about 35O millicrnms.
The scarcity of rndium ores and
The humane requirement that the pro
ductiun of rndum should he controlled
for public welfare prompted the In.
PRODUCTION of this bll IN congress. lt7
main provision wa, that all produc
prs of this ore should hr compelled
to sell their output to the United
States government and ut price to
be- fixed 10y the secretary Of the In
terror. which should be- the governing
market price and that the ore should
be- reduced In works owned, 10y the
government. In this wuy the govern.
mpnt might be, able lu obtain un
amount of rndlum sufficient TO supply
its wenty-threc hospitals Any sur.
plus would be sold under the pro.
vision Of the secretary
Threo-fourths of the worlds rBdium
Is produced from CarnOtitr ores NJ
Utah and Colorado. In 1914 II was
estimated that there were only thirty
grams of rndium in the whole world
nm amount which Dr. Kelly asserted
should be owned In the United States
I'm this country two companies, IN,
Standard Chemical company " Pitts
mrgh, and the Radlum Institute oi
America, New York city, are en-
Gagged In the production " radlum
The United States Bureau ot Nine
has perfected Il process for the eNtraC
tiOn Of radlum from lts ores II wa
hoped that I'm 1914 total NJ forty
eight grams NJ radium would be- pro
huced twelve grams from American
ores In foreign countries, lively,
grams In foreign comtrlc. from ore
obtained In those countries and twcn
~ four grams I'm the United states
The Pittsburgh company expected (,
manufacture gram month Tn,
following statements were made bl
Dr Kelly:
This rndium Is offering us n dcfin
itc hope I'm curing u certain number
NJ cancer cases. and II We have d
chance 10 experiment further thcr,
rs no telling what We can do with II
IF the cancer Is discovered I'm IN,
very earliest stages, Il may In CureC
by surgery. In the more advanced
stages recurrence &, the rule Yol
'NllNul E'l NJ lIf INOlN. UfNf lllli
microscopic cells rcman In the tls
sues, invariabc. aud viii carry on IN,
growth exactly as II You had mo-
operated or touched II nt all
In the older cases surgery ~ help
less because of the deep invasion an,
diffusion " the growth; hut mdluu
viii attack cancer and halt most %
those eases without blrmish, withOu
sacrificing the tissues II mrts IN,
tissues back into the normal form
As nr Abbey has a happy way o
expressing II. II drives the anarchists
rrlls back into the ranks of the nor
mnl cells and makes them do thri
part In other words, rHdmm viii
not only do what surgery does, hut 4
goes beyond and takes cms. o
eases which are utterly beyond sur
gerry"
Sume NJ the cures b, udum treat
mrnt attributed to In Kelly an,
nr Abbc ARE little short uf the mlrac
ulous. Though emitting n, crflul
gence continuously, ndium, accord
ing TO scientists, would not bctray
perceptable lesseniug " It's actlyiue
or Its weight Ia two thousand years