30 NOVEMBER 1929, Page 3

Radium The National Radium Commission has issued an encouragement and

a warning. The warning concerns the unguarded statements which have been appearing recently as to the certainty with which cancer can be cured by radium. Certain forms of cancer can be cured, and it is possible that others may be curable by a com- bination of radium treatment with other methods. Treat- ment by radium is far less complicated and painful than former treatments, and sufferers may therefore be encouraged to come forward with less hesitation and earlier. The National Radium Fund has at last made it possible to acquire adequate supplies of radium. Every modern form of treatment can now be obtained in this country.

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