ORGANIZATION 1
1．THE PREVENTION OF CANCER＆W．C．Hueper 3
2．THE ORGANIZATION OF A TUMOR CLINIC IN A GENERAL HOSPITAL＆Charles F．Branch 22
3．THE ORGANIZATION OF CANCER DETECTION FACILITIES＆Charles S．Cameron 37
4．ORGANIZATION OF A PROGRAM FOR HOME CARE OF THE CANCER PATIENT＆Martin Cherkasky and Abraham Oppenheim 47
DIAGNOSIS AND PATHOLOGY 53
5．THE MICROSCOPIC GRADING OF CANCER＆Albert C．Broders 55
6．BIOPSY IN TUMOR DIAGNOSIS＆John V．Blady 73
7．THE EXAMINATION OF EXFOLIATED CELLS IN TUMOR DIAGNOSIS＆George N．Papanicolaou and N．Chandler Foot 95
8．TISSUE CULTURE IN TUMOR CLASSIFICATION AND DIAGNOSIS＆Margaret R．Murray and Arthur Purdy Stout 124
SURGERY 141
9．GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF PREOPERATIVE AND POSTOPERATIVE CARE＆Irving M．Ariel and George T．Pack 143
10．ESTIMATION OF OPERATIVE RISK AND PREOPERATIVE PREPARATION OF THE POOR-RISK PATIENT＆John S．LaDue and Rudolph J．Marshall,Jr． 166
11．ELECTROSURGICAL TREATMENT OF NEOPLASTIC DISEASES＆Grant E．Ward 185
12．SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS OF VASCULAR SURGERY PERTAINING TO THE TREATMENT OF MALIGNANT NEOPLASMS＆C．Stuart Welch and Harry H．Miller 196
IRRADIATION 239
13．THE PHYSICAL BASIS OF RADIATION THERAPY＆Elizabeth F．Focht and Edith H．Quimby 241
14．THE RADIOSENSITIVITY OF TUMORS＆George K．Higgins 250
15．BIOLOGIC EFFECTS OF IONIZING RADIATION＆Charles L．Dunham and L．W．Tuttle 269
CLINICAL APPLICATION OF ROENTGEN RAYS 279
16．THE CLINICAL APPLICATION OF LOW-VOLTAGE,SHORT-DISTANCE X-RAY THERAPY＆Eugene P．Pendergrass and Richard H．Chamberlain 281
17．THE CLINICAL APPLICATION OF MEDIUM-VOLTAGE X-RAY THERAPY (140 TO 400 KV) IN CANCER TREATMENT＆Frank J．Borrelli and R．Vincent Grieco 293
18．THE CLINICAL APPLICATION OF SUPERVOLTAGE X-RAY THERAPY (1,000-3,000 KV) IN CANCER TREATMENT＆Ralph Phillips 318
19．THE CLINICAL APPLICATION OF MOVING-FIELD RADIOTHERAPY＆Jens Nielsen 330
20．THE CLINICAL APPLICATION OF THE BETATRON IN THE TREATMENT OF CANCER＆Roger A．Harvey and John S．Laughlin 342
CLINICAL APPLICATION OF RADIUM 353
21．METHODS OF APPLYING RADIUM IN CANCER THERAPY＆J．L．Dobbie 355
22．THE CLINICAL APPLICATION OF THE RADIUM ELEMENT PACK＆Constance A．P．Wood 379
23．MULTIPLE SOURCE RADIUM BEAM THERAPY＆Douglas Quick and Jeanne Delano Richmond 394
CLINICAL APPLICATION OF RADIOACTIVE ISOTOPES 401
EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION:ARTIFICIAL RADIOISOTOPES IN THE TREATMENT OF CANCER 403
24．GENERAL PRINCIPLES IN THE THERAPEUTIC USE OF ARTIFICIAL RADIOACTIVE ISOTOPES＆Paul F．Hahn 406
25．THE CLINICAL APPLICATION OF SYSTEMIC RADIOACTIVE ISOTOPES IN CANCER THERAPY＆William F．Bethard and Leon O．Jacobson 420
26A．THE TREATMENT OF CANCER WITH SMALL SOURCES OF RADIOACTIVE GOLD＆Ulrich K．Henschke,Arthur G．James,and William C．Myers 427
26B．THE TREATMENT OF CANCER WITH SMALL SOURCES OF RADIOACTIVE IRIDIUM＆Ulrich K．Henschke 431
27．THE CLINICAL APPLICATION OF SMALL SOURCES OF RADIOACTIVE COBALT＆Joseph L．Morton and George W．Callendine,Jr． 435
28．USE OF THE RADIOACTIVE COBALT BEAM FOR CANCER THERAPY＆Ivan H．Smith and John G．Brown 450
PROTECTION AND TREATMENT OF RADIATION REACTIONS 465
29．PROTECTION IN RADIATION THERAPY＆Eugene T．Leddy 467
30．THE TREATMENT OF RADIATION REACTIONS＆Ruth J．Guttmann 489
HORMONE THERAPY,CHEMOTHERAPY,AND GENERAL CARE OF THE CANCER PATIENT 499
31．THE BIOLOGIC EFFECTS OF HORMONES AS THEY APPLY TO CANCER TREATMENT＆Robert A．Huseby 501
32．CLINICAL APPLICATION OF HORMONES IN CANCER THERAPY＆Julian B．Herrmann 510
33．PRINCIPLES OF CLINICAL CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY＆Alfred Gellhorn 540
34．THE CARE OF PATIENTS IN THE INCURABLE AND TERMINAL STAGES OF CANCER＆William E．Howes 554
35．SPECIAL NURSING PROBLEMS OF THE PATIENT WITH CANCER＆Mary G．Patterson 563
REPORTING END RESULTS OF CANCER TREATMENT 571
36．METHODS OF REPORTING END RESULTS OF CANCER TREATMENT＆Eleanor J．Macdonald 573
37．SPECIFIC METHODS OF CALCULATING SURVIVAL RATES OF PATIENTS WITH CANCER＆Joseph Berkson and Robert P．Gage 578
BIBLIOGRAPHIES 591
INDEX 629