The Treatment of Polycythemia Vera by Spray Irradiation

Abstract
IN 1932 the treatment of polycythemia vera by spray irradiation was instituted at the Massachusetts General Hospital by the Department of Radiology at the suggestion of Dr. Francis T. Hunter. The results of treatment at the end of a ten-year period were presented by Robbins.1 The purpose of this study is to report upon the present status of the original group of patients and also upon the results of treatment in 8 additional patients. This method of treating polycythemia vera has proved the most successful of any of the procedures that have been tried at this hospital, and it has . . .