The Treatment of Cancer of the Maxillary Antrum by Radium

Abstract

The results of treatment by radiation of carcinoma of the maxillary antrum are given for the years 1932–1941, with particular reference to a simplified method of radium treatment used in the latter half of that period. This consists simply of the insertion of a single tube of radium into the tumour—an operation practically free from immediate risk. The types of tumour for which this method is contra-indicated are mentioned.