Abstract
The treatment of malignancies with radiotherapy and intracavitary techniques at the Tanzanian Tumor Center in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, during an eight-month period in 1979 is reported. Cancer of the uterine cervix was the tumor most frequently treated by radiation, as well as breast, esophagus, skin, and bladder cancers.
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