1937

Hodgkin’s disease, prophylactic radiation in treatment of: Rene Gilbert of Geneva lay groundwork for modern radiotherapy. In a landmark paper read to Int. Congress of Radiology (Chicago), he advocated treating a field that included not only the involved lymph nodes chain, but also contiguous nodes. “This concept of prophylactic irradiation to contiguous nodes was revolutionary,” and Gilbert reported that 34% of his Hodgkin’s patients treated this way were alive at five years (C. Jacobs, 69-70).