Further experience with radiotherapy by multiple daily sessions.
Since 1972 over 100 patients have been treated by frequent daily sessions of radiotherapy with a short overall time. Cobalt 60 teletherapy and 250 kV X-ray beams have been used with radical or palliative dosage. The tolerance to these regimes of the skin, breast, chest wall, neck, lung and pelvis is discussed and the tumour responses described. Radiotherapy by multiple daily sessions is clinically possible and often an advantage. Its therapeutic ratio is not inferior to comparable regimes using longer intervals.
D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy; D001984:Bronchial Neoplasms; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007414:Intestinal Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy; D007822:Laryngeal Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy; D008297:Male; D008722:Methods; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D011879:Radiotherapy Dosage; D012867:Skin / Q000528:radiation effects; D001749:Urinary Bladder Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy; D014565:Urogenital Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy