“…Clinical studies using alternative techniques to overcome the potential problem of hypoxia in gliomas, such as hyperbaric 02 (Chang, 1977) and fast-neutron therapy Laramore et al, 1978;Batterman, 1980;Catterall et al, 1980), have not demonstrated any improvement in survival over comparable patients treated by photons. There was, however, some reported improvement of local tumour control at postmortem examination.…”