. Medical and surgical reports. a was too deepto be classed as superficial and too extensive to give radiumits best opportunity, but for which other treatment had failedor the site made operation undesirable. Group V.— Cases in which no treatment could bring abouthealing and for which radium was used simply to retard thegrowth or to keep the patient from the blank and impassablewall of hopelessness. In other words, where it was used toshorten the period of despair. Group F., 49 years old. Characteristic epithelioma on mucous membraneof lower lip, 1 cm. bj^ 1^ cm., a raised ulcerated surf
. Medical and surgical reports. a was too deepto be classed as superficial and too extensive to give radiumits best opportunity, but for which other treatment had failedor the site made operation undesirable. Group V.— Cases in which no treatment could bring abouthealing and for which radium was used simply to retard thegrowth or to keep the patient from the blank and impassablewall of hopelessness. In other words, where it was used toshorten the period of despair. Group F., 49 years old. Characteristic epithelioma on mucous membraneof lower lip, 1 cm. bj^ 1^ cm., a raised ulcerated surface with induration1 cm. deep. Healed in four weeks with ten applications of radium. Theinduration began to diminish three days after the first application. Theulceration promptly became less indolent, and after five applications anarrow, slightly contracted circle of healed scar tissue began to appeararound the edge, and the induration had disappeared. Still healedJanuary 1, 1913, five years later. RADIUM IN SKIN CANCERS. 81. Before Radium Treatment.
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