Radiotherapy
Radioterapia
- Date
- 1896–1903 · confidence medium
- Place
- Lyon, France
- Credited to
- Victor Despeignes (Lyon, 1896, X-rays on a cancer); Emil Grubbe (Chicago, 1896); Henri Danlos (radium, Paris, 1901); Claudius Regaud (fractionation, Institut Curie)
- People
- 👤 Claudius Regaud1870–1940👤 Emil Grubbe1875–1960👤 Victor Despeignes1866–1937
- Field
- Life & health
⚠️ Disputed: the sources disagree.
What it is
Use of X-rays and radium to destroy tumours. It was the first non-surgical cancer treatment and created oncology.
Several physicians applied X-rays to tumours almost simultaneously in 1896.
What it led to
- Radiation oncology and the cobalt bomb
- Radiation protection after harm to the pioneers
- Radium institutes (Paris, Stockholm, Madrid)
Built on
Made possible
- Cobalt bomb (teletherapy unit)
- Medical linear accelerator
- Brachytherapy