Excerpt from Radium, Vol. 4: February, 1915 Radium is likely to play its role so much the better, the more the neoplasm has been reduced to an appreciable minimum by a surgical operation. We may say also that the latter may be facilitated or even rendered possible by radium, which, in cer tain cases, modifies an inoperable neoplasm to such an extent that it becomes operable. Such cases, above all others, would be amenable to post-operative irradiation. In spite of our long period of personal practice we have been unable to formulate any statistics, owing to the fact that the cases differ so much from one another, and we can here' give only a general summary of facts reflecting the general impression which has been made upon us by the numerous cases of cancer of the uterus or of recurrence which we have treated by radium. Excluding cases in which the lesions have deeply invaded the true pelvis and the ganglia, and those in which extension to the bladder and rectum render any attempt at complete treatment of the neoplasm impossible, it may be said that the distressing symptoms and haemorrhage have invariably been greatly relieved by the application of radium. Although we emphasize the value of radium therapy, we do not for a moment intend to claim that radium plays the role in the cure of cancer. Our present object is to render obvious its value as a new therapeutic agent, which is capable of rendering services to the patient, such as can be rendered by no other method of treatment, excepting always those which can be ren dered by surgery in operable cases. Without wishing to revert here to the special practical facili ties oi the armamentarium of radium therapy, we think it, desir able, whilst doing justice to the painlessness of the applications, to point out a few manifestations inherent in the treatment, which it is essential to recognize and take into consideration. Even during the applications the patients may experience a sen sation of nausea, which in certain cases results in vomiting, but which otherwise disappears very rapidly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.