| OLOF EDLUND Antiquarian Bookseller STOCKHOLM |  |
| OLOF EDLUND Antiquarian Bookseller STOCKHOLM | |
| $ 78 |
| First separate edition of Heyman's doctoral thesis, originally published in Archiv für Gynäkologie, 108:2-3. Includes bibliography (pp.237-44). " In Sweden, James Heyman [1892-1945] extended the concept of the Stockholm method for the treatment of cancer of the cervix in three separate intracavitary applications of radium, 2 weeks apart. As chairman of a committee of the League of Nationshe promulgated the staging, and collated the results, of radiotherapy on cancer of the cervix. He also developed the packing method of intrauterine irradiation for carcinoma of the endometrium"(Juan A. del Regato, One hundred years of radiation oncology, in Current Radiation Oncology, vol. 2, p. 18). |