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THE Irish Radium Committee reports that during the year 1932, 342 batches of radon tubes were issued, a slight increase over 1931. Attention is directed to the fact that the present general depression has adversely affected the regular hospital attendance of patients, and in consequence the results of treatment during the year are disappointing. Skin cancers react well to radium treatment, but the results of treatment of rectal cancer have been so unfavourable that it has been abandoned. For cancer of the breast, radium is now rarely used, a combination of deep X-ray therapy and surgery proving satisfactory (Sci. Proc. Boy. Dublin Soc, 20, N.S., No. 38, Separate Issue, July, 1933).
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Use of Radium in Ireland. Nature 132, 238 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132238c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/132238c0