The study of 1,173 cancer cases registered in two years and trotados parallel with Cobalt-60 and Roentgen-Radium Radium is presented. In both treatment modalities , the dose and the technical procedure were equivalent. The selection of patients was only considering how external conformation of the patient (obese patients were compulsorily treated with Cobalt 60 ) and the availability of time on the cobalt unit . It has been found that only 75 % of patients receiving appropriate and comprehensive treatment ( the other percentage 110 receives for reasons beyond the department) and 62% of it ( 75%) out of sight , ie , are not controlled at 5 years . The therapeutic results can only be studied and compared with similar and each other, taking into account the figures , since the absolute results give a false assessment of the therapeutic value of radiation unfavorably because the quota of pat...

It has made the study of time elapsed between the time they first looked at the National Institute of Neoplastic Diseases and the time they began receiving specific treatment in 1000 consecutive patients seen between January and June 1962; which accounted for 6.1 percent of the 16,349 patients admitted in 1962 . In 1000 patients admitted to the Institute , 1114 final diagnoses were made , as became a diagnosis in some patients. 72.5 percent of patients were female and 27.5 percent male. Factors park them ( summer or winter ) do not substantially influence the type of patients seen at the Institute or the delay for treatment. The 58.6 percent of cases ( 653 ) were treated as outpatients , 26.7 percent of cases ( 297) were hospitalized and 14.7 percent were referred to other health care facilities . In 653 cases ( 58.6 % of all cases) of patients were treated as outpatients , 441 cases wer...