neutron therapy in both the BMJ and the national press.'4It is important not to let the political issue obscure the scientific facts, and there have been many mis-statements and half truths printed regarding Hammersmith Hospital's experience, the Edinburgh trials, and the present role of the National Cancer Institute in the funding of trials in the United States.The Hammersmith Hospital studies on the response of normal and tumour tissues to neutron treatment in predictably resistant disease: * Offset the bad results of previous unsuccessful clinical studies in the United States' * Showed the benefit of neutron radiation therapy of resistant tumours * Defined the limits of low energy (short pene-
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