Yasuo Yoshioka • Jun Itami
Masahiko Oguchi • Takashi Nakano
Editors

2019

Brachytherapy has a long history since the discovery of radium-226 by Marie Curie in 1898 and its introduction to the cancer treatment in France in 1901. Already in 1913, the clinical results of brachytherapy in cervical cancer surpassed the results obtained through Wertheim’s operation. The era of “Strahl statt Stahl” (rays instead of iron knife) came. Brachytherapy was at that time a sole modality which can be curative in the deep-lying tumors.