Radium Treatment of Carcinoma of the Cervix Uteri

Abstract

In the six years that we have treated cancer of the cervix with radium in the Woman's Hospital, we have based our treatment on the reaction of the neoplasm to the initial, or, as we prefer to call it, the therapeutic, dose as seen from six to eight weeks after the first radium treatment has been given. In a recent paper by one of us,1 the technic of administering the radium and the clinical reaction as seen in the cervix for from six to