Cancer
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The past experience of combined radiotherapy and surgery at Memorial Hospital was reviewed. Preoperative radiotherapy seemed to be of value in certain tumors of the head and neck, in esophageal carcinoma, in deeply invading cancers of the bladder without metastasis lymph nodes. ⋯ Preoperative radiotherapy in sarcoma of bone is used but we have no proof of benefit. The author concludes that the partnership of surgery and radiotherapy needs further study.
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The case records of 173 patients treated for cancer during childhood, free of disease at least 5 years later and free of disease in 1967 were reviewed. There were 84 boys and 89 girls. ⋯ Although many of the children were well adjusted in later life, others developed emotional problems. Cancer detection in a well child population for the tumors characteristically seen in the different age groups is the responsibility of the parents and physicians rendering health supervision to the children.