radium therapy

In certain cases, a combination of x-ray and radium therapy was suggested.

Began work as representative radium therapy machinery 1948.

Assigned to Northern Spain as radium therapy equipment salesman 1949.

Interstitial radium therapy was common in the 1930s.

The technique, known as nasopharyngeal radium therapy, was common for decades among troops and civilians alike.

This work resulted in Ernst writing the treatise Health through radium therapy in 1950.

Further trials of radium therapy began, though at a much slower pace than did those using x-rays because radium was expensive and difficult to obtain.

Cases sprung up of the development of carcinoma in patients who had used conventional radium therapy up to 40 years after the original treatments.

In May 2005 Coultard was diagnosed with breast cancer, which was successfully treated with surgery, chemotherapy and radium therapy.

"Radium therapy", Radium, vol.7, no.1, pp.

He also began working in the new fields of radiology and radium therapy and founded an X-ray and radium institute in Berlin.

The most marked effects produced with radium therapy were with lupus, ulcerous growths, and keloid, particularly because they could be applied more specifically to tissues than with x-rays.

Kumud Shankar Ray (1892-1950) did pioneering wоrk іn tuberculosis, chest medicine, thoracic surgery, gland grafting, radium therapy, etc.

In 1945, Dr. Silverstone offered a postgraduate course in radium therapy, the first organized course on the subject in this country, but radiation therapy soon shifted to safer radioactive isotopes, like cobalt-60.

A short time later, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, inventor of cornflakes, promoted a regimen of "biologic living," which, in addition to some visionary ideas about diet and exercise, included five daily enemas and radium therapy.