Abstract
THE Medical Research Council has issued a report which summarises the results of research work in the treatment of cancer done during 1930 by means of radium salt entrusted by H.M. Government to the Council (Special Rep. Series, No. 160. London: H.M. Stationery Office. Is. net). It also contains data concerning patients treated in earlier years, and thus maintains continuity with the eight previous and similar reports that have been issued. The stock of radium entrusted to the Council has been distributed on loan to selected research centres throughout Great Britain. Growths of the breast, cervix uteri, and buccal cavity are at present most favourable for radium therapy, but in rectal growths little success has attended the treatment. It is remarked that up to the present no method has been discovered by which malignant cells can be made more radium-sensitive, and that any advance in this direction would have wide-felt effects. Of cases of sarcoma, 23–50 per cent react favourably to radium treatment, and five cases of brain tumour have been treated, with two apparent successes.
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