Medicine: Cancer Finder

It has been known for some time that radium emanations have a specific effect on cancerous or other growing tissues. Using this fact as a basis, Drs. A. Kotzareff and L. Weyl of Paris have apparently worked out a method for determining the presence of new growths within the body. According to the report just published in the Presse Médical, they have discovered that a serum made from the patient's own blood and charged with radium emanations, when injected into the body, localizes in the embryonic or cancerous cells and can be...

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