Radiotherapy and Cancer

This booklet of 81 pages illustrates the trend in radiotherapy in a scheme of socialized medicine. The radiation therapy is given at a specially equipped and staffed center. Briefly, the work explains the mode of action and the effects of treatment with radium and roentgen rays, how cases are selected for treatment and, in brief form, the methods employed. The authors are the radiotherapists of the Wessex Radiotherapy Board, controlling the facilities for radiotherapy and the radiotherapeutic staffs at Southampton, Bournemouth and Portsmouth. In the second part of the book they give their ideas as to how cancer should be treated. These views are generally accepted in radiotherapeutic circles. Although surgical treatment is nearly always ignored if there is no hope of cure, these patients are given the benefit of radiotherapy for palliation. In a large percentage of cases the program of treatment is dependent on whether it is decided