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The 1898 discovery of radium represented one of the monumental advances in medicine, and paved the way for the emergence of novel fields such as nuclear physics and cancer therapy. In his book An Element of Hope: Radium and the Response to Cancer in Canada, 1900–1940, Charles Hayter examines the development of cancer programs in Canada and concomitantly illustrates the hopes, disappointments and struggles that accompanied the use of radium in cancer treatment. His book depicts the compelling historical timeframe that witnessed the entry of radium into the medical establishment, a time characterized by renewed optimism in medicine and research, and describes how the use of radium was introduced on empirical grounds, not through experiment in the laboratory but through experience in the clinic. The hopes placed in this element in the early days are probably best illustrated by the words of a Montreal physician who stated that without radium, the world would be uninhabitable, and by the initial belief that radium was to cancer a magic bullet.

An Element of Hope: Radium and the Response to Cancer in Canada, 1900-1940, by Charles Hayter