Dosage Distribution and Dosage in Carcinoma of the Uterine Cervix

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  • WMW. J. Meredith
    W. J. Meredith
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Abstract
This paper will describe briefly the Manchester approach to the treatment of carcinoma of the uterine cervix under three main headings: (a) what we wanted to do when in 1937 we started working on this subject; (b) how we decided to do it; (c) the results we have obtained and conclusions that we can draw from them. What we wished to do was to treat carcinoma of the uterine cervix and to do so primarily by means of radium. More than this, it was regarded as essential that any method we should devise must be such that we could easily calculate and state the number of roentgens delivered, for it is only when dosage is expressed in terms of roentgens that any real progress can be made. A further requirement was that the method to be devised should be capable of delivering the same dose in roentgens regardless of the size of the patient or the size and shape of the tumour being treated. Any radiological method must be able to produce a high dose zone which is roughly the shape of the tumours that are likely to ...