what year was radiation therapy invented
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The history of radiation therapy or radiotherapy can be traced back to experiments made soon after the discovery of x-rays (1895), when it was shown that exposure to radiation produced cutaneous burns.ases sprung up of the development of carcinoma in patients who had used conventional radium therapy up to 40 years after the original treatments. Robley D. Evans made the first measurements of exhaled radon and radium excretion from a former dial painter in 1933.