TY  - JOUR
T1  - LOndon
Y1  - 1929/06/08
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1929.02700490078020
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 1978
EP  - 1979
VL  - 92
IS  - 23
N2  - The National Radium Fund 
    The attention of both the medical profession and the public is now fixed on the new hope which the advance of radium treatment offers for delivery from a dread and increasing scourge—death from cancer with all its possible sufferings. In a previous letter the necessity for an increased supply of radium was stated. An appeal for funds over the names of the presidents of the Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons and other eminent members of the profession has been published. They point out that month by month it becomes more manifest that in the treatment of cancer radium is essential and that the profession is seriously hampered by the grievous insufficiency of the supply of radium in this country. The disease is not confined to those worn by age and debility but attacks vigorous men and women in the plenitude of their usefulness. Four thousand
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1929.02700490078020
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1929.02700490078020
ER  -