RT Journal
A1 WINDEYER WW
T1 PResent position of radiotherapy in medical practice
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1949
FD June 25
VO 140
IS 8
SP 665
OP 669
DO 10.1001/jama.1949.02900430007003
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1949.02900430007003
AB The development of the art and science of radiotherapy has proceeded with such rapidity that it has been difficult to keep continually abreast of the progress that has been made. This is particularly true in regard to the last ten years, during which time the discoveries have been of such far reaching importance as to open up entirely new fields and new possibilities of methods of treatment by the use of roentgen rays and the radiations from radioactive substances. At the same time, owing to the war, maintenance of close contacts among the workers in this branch of medicine in different countries has not been possible. In consequence the radiotherapy of each country has developed along individual lines to a greater extent than in the prewar period.It is possible that this tendency to isolation has resulted in excessive attention being paid to certain aspects of the subject and in