RESULTS OF RADIATION THERAPY FOR CARCINOMA OF THE UTERUS

Abstract

Since 1919, when we began to treat carcinoma of the uterus with radiotherapy, we have surveyed our results every two years and published them in 1925, 1928, 1930, 1932 and 1934. Three more five year series are now available, or thirteen in all. We are also giving our ten year results, as we did in the 1934 report, for we believe they are a more accurate index of the value of the therapy. The total material we have seen in the cancer clinic to date amounts to 899 cases, as follows: cancer of the cervix 752, of which we treated 717, thirty-five being too far advanced for aid; cancer of the corpus 147, in seventy-one of which only irradiation was given and in sixty-eight operation done, sixty-two by hysterectomy and six by exploratory laparotomy only. The five year survival rates for cancer of the cervix are based on the 595