Epithelioma of the lip offers favorable conditions for successful treatment, whether by operation or by radium, more frequently than the majority of other forms of epidermoid carcinoma. This circumstance depends, not on less malignant tendencies, but rather on the exposed position of cancer of the lip. A malignant new growth of the lip excites the concern of a patient in a far earlier stage than the same kind of growth inside the mouth. For this reason, patients having cancer of the lip with great regularity seek assistance when their growth is still small and superficial. In these stages cancer of the lip offers particularly favorable conditions for successful treatment by radium. The growth is most accessible and can be completely covered by radium. If it is justifiable to treat any form of early cancer by radium instead of by operation, it is cancer of the lip. In the report1