Evening Star Newspaper, May 11, 1931, Page 20

B—4 CANGER IS FOUGHT Caution Is Big Item as; Emanations Are Collected | for Clinic Use. Bpecial Disoateh to The Atar. CHICAGO., May 11 (NAN.A). “Bombers” every bit as effective as the champion destructionists of the Army—but_with the benefit of man-| kind as their aim—have been organized in_Chicago. They are manufacturers of “radium | bombs,” highly valuable apparatus said | by physicians to be securing optimistic | results in the treatment of the disease ©of despair—cancer Working in an office high in a down- | town building, profected against cer- tain actions of the precious material | with which they are dealing, these chemists are activating Chicago's upply of radium and collec manations in “radium bombs. der guard to two cancer clinics in two Chicago hospitals. one on the North and one on the South side of the eity. where arrangements are now under way for the reception of patients The bomb-making is being carried on | under direction of Dr. Frank Fdwin Simpson, 63-year-old dermatologist and for a number of years head of the Chi- cago Radium Institute. Proper Handling Necessary. “When the diagnosis shows that an eperation would be unwise,” Dr. Simp- #0n declares. “we have found that radium is our moet successful agent. But it must be used properly. Much of the disfavor into which radium as a treatment for cancer has fallen in certain quarters has becn due to its abuse by those unfamiiiar with its pos- sibilities for good and evil. Even If the cancer iz 55 far advanced #s to b2 incurable, the prospects n" palliation—reducing the threat of the disease—by the prop>r use of radium are tremendous. Only those of us who cticed before the radium era can ully realize the truth of the saying in the medical profession that worse things than death can happen to a cancer patient.” Use of the “radium bombe™ iz one of two methods of eancer treatment by radium. according to Dr. Simpson, who | will make use of his $180.000 supply of the rare chemical element for the patienis at. the North Chicago and Jackson Park Hospitals here. The “bombing” treatment is known #s “distance frradiation.” The other method, by which the radium is im- | pianted’ in'o the growih. is known as “intra-fumoral irradiation.” Speaking of the former method, Dr. | Simpson said: “It can readily be shown thet there is no uz in the | body that is too erceply seated for radium to affect. proviaed a sufficlent | guantiiy is available and applied in | the proper war. Not Applied on Contact. “At the present time we seldom epply radium directly in contact with a lesion. but rather at a carefully calcu- lated distance from the skin or mem- brane. In all heavy treatments a radium shield is now used. A beam of ravs thus bombards the lesion while the pa- tient is protected from any incidental undesirable effects.” In the implantation method. Dr. £impson said. old-fashioned needles for the injection have been replaced by up-to-date surgeons with glass or lead ‘ that are buried and left per- manently in the tumor. “These little tubes.” the doctor ex- lained. “are about 2 or 3 millimeters in length and have an internal di- amefer of fifteen-hundredths of a millimeter and a wall thickness of three-tenths of a millimeter.” Dr. Simpson rose to his feet and loo':rd cut of his window upon the city w. “In this radium treatment. like every- thing else,” he said after a pause, “we | cannot urge too strongly the importance ! of early diagnosis. All our science seems to be of little value unless the patisnt overcomes his great fear and gives the g:n“?_t,:url.m a chance to examine him Favors Concentration. The doctor told how the pzople of Germany had become impressed with the value of radium treatments in ca cer cases. As a result, he sais, ment. centsrs have been springing 1 all over that country with a cons quent diversion of the German supply. He pleaded that America profit by the example and keep its radium concen- trated. ‘One hundred thousand dollars’ dium s of most good in it is used at one time on d, “not when it is a more patients at various points of the compass.” The coctor then added an important reminder. “You must keep in mind" he said “that the radfum can be used over and over again for all practical purposes It takes 11 years for an atom to wear out.” The great hope of this pioneer in- vestigator into the potencies of the ele- ment icolated by the Curies is that, | through centralization of supply. he wiil be able to make the treatments available to cancer patients of whatever means. In the past.” he declared, “the use of radium has been highly restrieted becance of its prohibitive rost But for the future the outlook i= brighter. 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Ar- turo Merino, Chilean aviation enthu- {siast. and a group of his countrymen THE EVENING 'SEEKS CONGRESS ACT | " AGAINST DEPORTING i Johnson to Introduce Bill to Cor- rect Mrs. Larsh's Ex- clusion. Legislation to permit the return to | the Tnited States of Mrs. Liltian Larsh, | recently deported American-born widow of a Canadian, will be introduced in the House of Representatives by Chair- man Johnson of the House Tmmigration Committee, according to an announce- | ment made yesterday at the headquar- ters of the Natlonal Woman's Party. The organization protesied her de- portation to Canada to the Labor De partment. 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