Abstract
The aim of this investigation has been to analyse the results of high-voltage radiotherapy in cases of inoperable carcinoma of the lung. The material selected consisted of cases in which the lesion was undoubtedly a primary one and, if operation had been performed, those in which fragments of tumour obviously remained. Radiotherapy was preceded by careful planning, and all the cases were followed up. Material. Between 1957 and October 1962,457 patients had been referred to Radiumhemmet with a diagnosis of carcinoma of the lung; 158 were selected for highvoltage radiotherapy, and 20 of these were not included in the present material because there was no definite microscopic verification of the clinical diagnosis of malignancy, because the microscopic examination revealed that it was not a primary lung turnour, or because close scrutiny of the operation reports and histologic examination of the surgical specimens provided no conclusive evidence of any tumour tissue remaining after the operation. It had been found on the basis of the clinical and radiologic examinations, mediastinoscopy, explorative thoracotomy and lymph-node biopsy that 124
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