Systemic and Clincical Effects induced in 263 Cancer Patients by Whole-Body X-Irradiation with Nominal Air Doses of 15 to 20 R

摘要

A series of 263 cancer patients received whole-body irradiation with doses ranging from 15 to 200 r. Critical evaluation of the procedure as a therapeutic tool was excluded from the report; its scope was limited essentially to acute and subacute effects, so far as they were systemic in nature. These effects — predomi¬nantly nausea, vomiting, and bone-marrow depression — were practically absent below 100 r; they became noticeable between 125 and 175 r; and they developed into complications requiring clinical treatment in 10 percent of the patients at 200 r