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ABSTRACT To the Editor: —I read with considerable interest and some apprehension in the November 5 issue of The Journal, page 1609, the editorial comment entitled Radium in the United States. The comment closed with the statement that certainly there is a tremendous need for more and less expensive radium, especially for the treatment of cancer. I agree that there is need for less expensive radium, but the need for more radium is not as great as the writer of that comment would lead one to believe. The important thing is that the radium in the country is so ill distributed. To increase the total quantity of radium available would not by itself improve matters but would tend to make them even worse than they are. Readers of The Journal are doubtless familiar with the blunders made in England in connection with the distribution and use of radium during the last
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