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 Medical, 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 detected by the effects produced on photographic plates. For instance, when a pregnant guinea pig was injected with such a serum, the radium emanations gradually disappeared from the rest of the tissues and localized in the embryo. The method has not yet been fully verified for use on human cancer. As soon as a sufficient experience has been obtained, its actual value in the early diagnosis of cancer may be stated. Certainly at this stage of the experiments the results are more than promising.