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ment for progress in the radiotherapy of neoplastic diseases. 

 Ewing '^ has pointed out that "there is little significance in dis- 

 cussing the curability of cancer as a whole. The discussion has 

 real meaning only when the different types of cancer are con- 

 sidered separately as nosological entities." 



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