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...Canada's pitchblende deposits at Great Bear Lake are about ready to produce 1 gm. of radium for 10 tons of ore in six weeks and a score of refining steps (against the Belgian Congo method of 3 mo. and 40 steps). Some 4,000 gm. of radium concentrates are ready for the refinery at Port Hope, Ontario. The Canadian process promises much cheap radium for the world, new wealth for Canada...
...design a new powerful mercury pump. Result is cheap, highly efficient vacuum tubes for radio, and long distance telephony. Another result was Dr. Coolidge's perfection of dependable x-ray tubes and his design of tandem x-ray', tubes whose radiation is almost as powerful as radium's gamma rays. (Manhattan's Memorial Hospital is using a 900,000-volt Coolidge tube to treat cancer...
...meeting one after another and reported 8,836 onetime cases of cancer known to be cured. Most dramatic witness was Dr. Edward Loughborough Keyes, Cornell Medical School urologist. Cried he: "I am an example of the cure of cancer. Three cancers have been removed from my face by radium or actual cautery...
...cheerleaders who began a fortnight's discussion of tumors at the New York Academy of Medicine last week-that cancer is curable if recognized very soon after its first development in the body. Then it can very often be eradicated by knife (steel or electric), X-ray or radium. Declared Dr. Franklin H. Martin, director-general of the College of Surgeons and organizer of their cancer symposium: "If all cases of cancer could be diagnosed early and treated promptly in their incipiency, the annual death rate from the disease, now recorded...
Despite disappointments certain advances have been made during the year in the treatment and alleviation of cancer. In Chicago Dr. Loyal Edward Davis of Northwestern University Medical School & Director Max Cutler of Michael Reese Hospital tumor clinic have been treating certain brain tumors by inserting radium needles into the diseased brain tissue itself. In Manhattan Dr. Charles Albert Elsberg of the Neurological Institute & associates are saving nine out of ten of their brain tumor cases by early diagnosis and bold excision...