ASTRO
Subtitle: a celebration of 50 years
By: by David Hussey ... [et al.] ; with Bill Beck on behalf of the ASTRO History Committee.
Contributors: Hussey, David H.; Beck, Bill.; American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology. History Committee.
Publisher: Donning Co. Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Virginia Beach, VA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781578645152
Subjects: American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology -- History; American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology; Cancer -- Radiotherapy -- United States -- Societies, etc. -- History; Radiotherapy -- United States -- Societies, etc. -- History; Radiotherapy -- history -- United States; Societies, Medical -- history -- United States; History, 20th Century -- United States; History, 21st Century -- United States; Radiology -- history -- United States
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Radiation therapy at the dawn of ASTRO : the state of the art in 1958; title: "Formalizing the informality" : a new society for American radiotherapists; title: The ASTRO triad; title: The American Club of Therapeutic Radiologists; title: The American Society of Therapeutic Radiologists; title: The largest society of therapeutic radiologists in the world, 1970/1979; title: ASTRO and the emergence of radiation therapy in the 1970s; title: ASTRO in a decade of change, 1972/1982; title: ASTRO and long-range planning, 1982/1990; title: ASTRO in the 1990s : 1991/1998; title: ASTRO in a new century, 1999/2008; title: ASTRO today and tomorrow.