Radiographic Atlas of the Genitourinary System

In the year 1966, it would be timely to stress "diag- nosis in the useful period."We know, alas, that the diagnosis of most bronchial cancers, esophageal cancers, and gastric cancers cannot be made in the useful period, that is, the period before the tumor has disseminated.The usual time of clinical recognition of cancer is in the last 20 per cent of the lifetime of that given cancer.The articles on the use of hyperbaric oxygen in conjunction with radiotherapy or chemotherapy are properly conservative.The absence of clinical controls is of course a stumbling block.Humphrey has a commendably candid article on the treatment of primary bronchial cancer.The monograph is well-illustrated and indexed.L.