Radiotherapy in China today.
The treatment of cancer by radiation in China began in the early 1930's. However, up to 1949, its development was very slow. Following Liberation, the growth of this specialty has been extremely rapid, as shown by the kind of modern radiotherapeutic equipment that is available today in many centers of our country. Currently almost every province has a cancer center with a good radiotherapy department and consequently, treatment results have improved over the past years. Due to the large number of patients seen in every radiotherapy department, many types of cancers are treated each day; thus clinical trials can be concluded in a shorter time. The author will show the kind of work that is being achieved in China in general, and Shanghai in particular.
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Department of Radiation Oncology, Cancer Hospital and Institute, Shanghai Medical University, China.
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