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Excerpt from The Journal of Laryngology and Otology, 1923, Vol. 38
In a personal communication to the writer, Dr L. W. Dean, of the State University of Iowa College of Medicine, says Our results from the use of the radium for cancer in the oesophagus have not been satisfactory. We have had cases with temporary improvement, but we have not had the improvements that have extended over a period of a year to eighteen months as reported by others.
My own experience with radium in laryngeal and oesophageal cancer, which now covers a period of two and one-half years, has been made possible by the hearty co-operation of Dr George Stuart Willis, Director of the Department of Radiology at the New York post-graduate Hospital. To the members of the Laryngological Section the work may be of added interest, because all cases have been examined, diagnosed, and the application of the radium made by a laryngologist and one especially interested in endoscopy.
The statistics of the Radium Department have been placed at my disposal in the summary of cases, and the majority have been observed and treated by me in conjunction with Dr Willis. My previous experience in the use of radium had been limited to a few cases of papillomata of the larynx, up to my return from France in 1919. At that time the Radium Department was established at the New York post-graduate Hospital, and along with my intimate connection with bronchoscopy work it opened up a co-operate plan of action. It hardly seems necessary to emphasise the advantage of this method of examination and the ease with which it has been possible to apply radium In what to us seems a scientific manner. Precision in diagnosis and accurate localisation of the growth were made possible as well as the study of the progress of the disease and the results of the treatment. Advantage has also been taken of the Department of Roentgenology in charge of Dr W. H. Meyer. Preliminary ?uoroscopic examinations, with X-ray pictures, have been made in all oesophageal cases, and in our early work a ?uoroscopic examination was made immediately after the introduction to check the position of the radium tube.
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