Abstract
“Necessity is the mother of invention and serendipity the handmaiden”.
The Toronto philosophy in radiotherapy has, for several decades, been one of large volume irradiation in preference to the more classical teaching of “excisional therapy” using small volumes and high dose. In this respect our pattern of practice has been different and unique. However, it was based on critical retrospective reviews of “patterns of failure.” In most sites where an improvement in survival was demonstrated, this was due to increased volume irradiated rather than increased dose; care was taken to exclude other variables, e.g., stage or grade, which might have been more responsible for any improvement than the therapy itself.
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Rider, W.D. (1988). Half Body Radiotherapy. In: Withers, H.R., Peters, L.J. (eds) Innovations in Radiation Oncology. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83101-0_11
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