Advances in Radiotherapy

This issue of the Surgical Oncology Clinics of North America focuses on Advances in Radiotherapy. In 1896, Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, a German physics professor, presented a lecture on a new kind of “X ray” and in 1901 received the first Nobel Prize awarded in physics for this work.1 Around this same time, Maria Sklodowska-Curie discovered radium as a source of radiation and subsequently reported on the physiologic effects of radium rays.2 The earliest radiation treatments involved skin con ditions, like eczema and lupus, although radiotherapy was described in the treatment of a patient with gastric cancer as early as the nineteenth century.
Source: Surgical Oncology Clinics of North America - Category: Surgery Authors: Tags: Foreword Source Type: research