“…Irradiation arrests or reduces glandular activity and destroys possible capsular remnants or possi bly existing minute tumorous foci. Certain authors do not think that mixed tumours are sensitive to irradiation and regard it as superfluous [56,8,9,48], whereas others obtained highly satisfactory results from combined ther apy [81,89,88,49,60,67]. The main argument adduced by the followers of combined treatment (i.e.…”