Michel Boucher > wrote:

(Steve Pope) wrote in news:g4bra6$m4p$1

>> They had chemotherapy in the 1930's? I had no idea.

>The Institut du Radium at the Université de Montréal was founded in 1922 to
>treat cancer with radium therapy, the material being provided by the
>government of the province of Québec. It closed its doors in 1967 and
>became the Institut du cancer. So yes, there was chemotherapy available in
>Québec in the 1930's.

Thanks.

I guess I'd consider that radiation therapy as opposed to chemo,
but no biggie.

Steve