TY  - JOUR
T1  - Cancer. volume 5. part ix: Radiotherapy
Y1  - 1959/10/17
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1959.03010250177025
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 1039
EP  - 1039
VL  - 171
IS  - 7
N2  - The previous volumes which presented various aspects of the problem in an authoritative fashion are now followed by a fifth devoted to radiotherapy. Like its predecessors, this volume presents a concise review of the problems by a number of qualified authorities, mainly from England, but also from Ireland and Canada. It is astonishing how much useful information has been compressed into individual chapters which average only 15 pages. A short historical review of the problem is followed by seven chapters dealing with the technical aspects of, reactions to, and measures of protection against radiotherapy. The rest of the book discusses therapy as applied to different organs. Short reviews of clinical and pathological aspects of the various types of tumors are followed by discussions of techniques of treatment, results of and indications for radiation, and, in many instances, evaluations of the respective values of radiotherapy and surgery and contraindications to and
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1959.03010250177025
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1959.03010250177025
ER  -