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Nancy J. Tarbell, MD
Harvard Medical School Joint Center for Radiation Therapy Boston, Mass

JAMA. 1989;262(20):2833.

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To the Editor.—

I have just finished reading the May 19 issue¹ of JAMA. This was the 10th annual series of the CONTEMPO issue. I found it to be excellent, with a nice synopsis of recent developments in various subspecialties of medicine. However, one major department was not represented.

Radiation therapy has been a discipline in its own right for more than 20 years. Recently, there have been major advances, including the use of radiosurgery, the use of hyperthermia, and the use of radiation sensitizers in the treatment of malignancy, just to name a few. Unfortunately, none of the major advances or areas of interest were covered under oncology. The neurosurgery section briefly touched on radiosurgery but primarily for arteriovenous malformations and not for malignancies. Departments of radiation therapy, in fact, represent a larger specialty area than many of those represented in the CONTEMPO issue. Approximately 50% of patients . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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