Radium Therapy: Its Physical Aspects

Radium

This little volume deals briefly and completely with the properties of radium both from a therapeutic and physical point of view. Briefly dealing with the observations on the various phenomena which lead to the discovery of radium itself, the author passes to the physical properties of the element, and goes into the differentiation between the alpha, beta and gamma rays. The relationship existi...

The Janeway Medal and its allegory.

“What goes round comes round”

Soon after the discovery of x-rays by Roentgen, radioactivity by Becquerel, and radium by the Curies, it was concluded that x-rays could not only be used for diagnostic purposes but also for therapy [1,2]. In the early years of radiation therapy, physicians had little understanding or knowledge of the physical nature and biological effects of radiation, the delivered doses were not certain, the...

Radium and Its Surgical Application

manner that a medical practitioner will have not only no difficulty in following the author, but also will positively enjoy reading him. The author first of all deals with the physics of radium: next the apparatus and means of application, then the sensitivity of the tissues to radium, and. proceeds to deal with malignant growths in various situations, which are suitable for radium therapy. The...

Fighting prostate cancer with radium-223--not your Madame's isotope.

As each year ushers in new and innovative survivalenhancing treatments for castration-resistant prostate cancer with bone metastases, patients and their physicians have a sense of empowerment associated with this growing therapeutic arsenal.1-5 Nonetheless, nearly 30,000 men still die from prostate cancer every year, and many have debilitating illness from osseous involvement. For this latter g...