title: [Radiotherapy or the preservation of the organ and its function].
abstract: Radiation therapy is increasingly used as a cancer treatment to avoid mutilating surgery. We first review the cancer sites where this role was first established (head and neck cancer, breast and prostate cancers). Then we examine the cancer sites where radiation treatments have only recently replaced amputation or other mutilating surgery (soft tissue sarcomas, anal and oesophageal cancers). Finally we review some sites where research in organ preservation is still ongoing, for example eye tumors and bladder cancer.
authors.affiliation: Hôpital Notre-Dame, département de radio-oncologie, Montréal.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Thériault
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy* / Q000601:surgery
vernacular_title: La radiothérapie ou la préservation de l'organe et de la fonction.