The Treatment of Malignant Disease by Radium and X-Rays Being a Practice of Radiotherapy
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In hig introduction the author states this book is essentially a statement of the principles and practice of the Radium Institute in Manchester (now part of the Christie Cancer Hospital and Holt Radium Institute) and there is no intention of implying that the methods and ideas presented are necessarily the best, the correct or the only methods. In keeping with this concept the first three chapters of the book are concerned with the particular principles
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