TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Chapter 26. Radiotherapy of Urologic Tumors A1 - Gottschalk, Alexander R. A1 - Speight, Joycelyn L. A1 - Roach, Mack A2 - McAninch, Jack W. A2 - Lue, Tom F. PY - 2013 T2 - Smith & Tanagho's General Urology, 18e AB - The primary management of genitourologic malignant diseases has been tied to the use of radiation for more than 100 years. In 1895, Roentgen described x-rays; by 1899, a patient with skin cancer was cured with radiation; and within 10 years, radiation was used to treat prostate cancer (Pasteau and Degrais, 1914). Radiotherapy became a mainstay of treatment for bladder and testicular cancers and later prostate cancer as supervoltage sources became available. Although chemotherapy and aggressive surgery have supplanted some of the uses of radiotherapy, radiation continues to play a major role in the management of carcinomas of the penis, urethra, prostate, and bladder. In this chapter, we review general principles and the indications for using radiation as a component in the primary management of urologic malignant diseases. The role of radiation as an agent of palliation has been well documented elsewhere and is excluded from this chapter. SN - PB - The McGraw-Hill Companies CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/10/03 UR - accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=56946905 ER -