"RADIATION THERAPY OF PROSTATIC CARCINOMA"

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To the Editor:— In the able survey of the present day therapy in cancer of the prostate there appears to have crept into the Query and Minor Note of March 7 at least one inaccuracy. The author of the answer says once the clinical diagnosis of carcinoma of the prostate has been made it is technically impossible to do any sort of surgical procedure that would effect a cure. As far as the surgical cure of this highly malignant disease is concerned, that has been answered by Drs. Hinman, Lowsley and Young in their communications of June 20. As far as irradiation goes I have reported two authenticated five year cures proved by pathologic specimen before treatment (by radon needles) and proved carcinoma free at autopsy five years later ( J. Urol. , March 1942). In the same article I reported that of 352 patients 21 (6 per cent) lived more than