Stockholm method

The Stockholm method described in radiation therapy , a method, malignant tumors of the uterus with radium to irradiate inlays. The method was developed in Stockholm in 1915 in Sweden's first oncology clinic, Radiumhemmet , by James Heyman .

Various radium carriers (e.g. plates, pens, capsules) were inserted into the cervix or the uterus . This was done in two sessions three weeks apart. The Göttingen method was a modification of the Stockholm method. Both are part of the radium packet methods .

Today, radium applications have given way to more modern brachytherapy devices and techniques.

literature

• JJ Chydenius: The healing process in radiation treatment of uterine cancer using the Stockholm method. Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica 20 (1940), 157-201, doi : 10.3109 / 00016344009153473
• G. Drack, U. Haller, F. Ikléa, W. Seelentag: Individualized brachytherapy of cervical carcinoma based on the Stockholm method with the Selectron recharger. Gynäkol Rundsch 27 (1987) (Suppl. 2), 21-22, doi : 10.1159 / 000270411

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