His report on Radium Therapy in Cancer, at the Memorial Hospital (1915-1916), which appeared in book form in 1917 was the most comprehensive work of its type published in the United States.

[citation needed] Its first chapter, "Physical Considerations Relative to the Application of Radium", was written by Gioacchino Failla.

[1] Janeway's 1919 paper on "The Treatment of Uterine Carcinoma" was considered a classic and was written while he was Attending Surgeon and Head of the Radium Department at Memorial Hospital in New York.

[4] The medal was designed by Edward H. Skinner, the American Radium Society's president-elect at the time, and Stephanie Prince, a young artist from Kansas City, Missouri.

The design is based on Norse mythology and depicts Odin standing before the giant Mimir seeking to drink from the well of knowledge.