Abstract
At present except for radiation and surgical therapy there is no other curative treatment for cervical cancer.
Comparisons of 5 year follow up results obtained by reviewing the recent literature between surgical and irradiation was done and the author emphasized that irradiation was a major factor in therapy.
As a standard treatment for cervical cancer the intracavitary radium combined with external radiation has been applied and of these the former was realized as being the principal part of the radiation.
Certain well establishing forms of applying radiation technics have been introduced and these principles and detailed technics were discussed among us.
To carry out the local irradiation one of the most essential factors is to devise the most efficient plan in distributing radium sources in the pelvis to obtain good dose distribution.
The well known fact is that some cases have resistance to radiation therapy. If we foretell that a certain case is radioresistant, it would be logical to treat it surgically.
In conclusion, it seems that radium therapy has to be employed more frequently in this country, because in the future this therapy will give better results if we are successful in improving the technics of its application and also the physical measurements of its radiation doses within the pelvis.
