Interpretation of some results from radiotherapy and an attempt to determine a rational treatment technique. 1906.
Interpretation of some results from radiotherapy and an attempt to determine a rational treatment technique. 1906.
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2003
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J. Bergonié;L. Tribondeau
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J. Bergonié;L. Tribondeau
We wish to discuss: (1) the strange selective action of X rays on epithelial tumors; (2) tumors produced by X rays. Firstly, all physicians have observed with the same interest mixed with surprise that X radiation can kill the cells of a neo-plasm while leaving the neighboring healthy tissues or even the tissues invaded by the tumor intact. But experiments on animals have shown that radiation has a selective action among healthy tissues. For example, in our experiments on the testicle of rat, we have been able to destroy the germinal cells whereas the interstitial tissue and the sertoli syncytium were unimpaired. As a result of these experiments, it has been possible to formulate the following law: X rays are more effective on cells which have a greater reproductive activity; the effectiveness is greater on those cells which have a long lineage, on those cells the morphology and the function of which are least definitively fixed. From this law it is easy to understand that roentgen radiation destroys tumors without destroying healthy tissues. It was quite puzzling when many and incontestible observations demonstrated that these same roentgen rays capable of destroying malignant tumors in patients were also capable, at times, of producing in the epithelial tissues of the radiotherapist , previously perfectly healthy, negligently exposed in the field of radiation, the appearance of tumors identical to the ones they can destroy. There is no longer any doubt about this point; X rays have produced in radiologists epithelial tumors in the skin of the hands which are invasive and metastasize to the lymph nodes. How can we interpret these apparently paradoxical results? Again, the animal experiments allow us to find a very plausible explanation for these facts. Regaud and Blanc have recently shown that the sperm of rats exhibit giant cells [formes mon-strueuses] after exposure to X rays. We also have found teratocytes in our histo-logic preparations. These authors state clearly that these giant cells are due to atypical mitoses of the spermatocytes. On our part, we have also observed other tes-ticular lesions which cannot be explained except by action of radiation on the over-active spermatogonia. It follows that the roentgenization, when it is not intense enough to kill cells, can still influence their further evolution. Is not an atypical evolution, in the present status of our aOriginally published in Comptes Rendus des Seances de l'Acad6mie des Sciences. Vol.