I have been looking for information about this but I still can't find a reliable answer. I have contacted Cancer Treatment Centers of America, The National Cancer Institute, American Society of Clinical
Oncology as well as the US National Library of Medicine but still no exact answer.
Anyone with reliable answer and evidence will be mentioned in my project as source of information.
If possible you should have asked mrs dr Curie. I thought this lady who discovered radioactivity also tried to use it therapeutically.
You could be right but I doubt that Dr Curie has used it clinically on patients. If she has used it, it would be experimental. Maybe
Henri-Alexandre Danlos? He used radioactive lotion for skin treatment with Radium, inspired by Curie's theory.
Yes, Danlos' name is also mentioned in the Wikipedia item "History of radiation therapy"
You could also read Gianfaldoni's publication, good luck. Article An Overview on Radiotherapy: From Its History to Its Current...
There is a well documented radiation application by the dermatologist Leopold Freund in Vienna, Austria, who treated a 5 year old grl suffering from Naevus pigmentosus piliferus in 1897.
Source: Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift: "Ein mit Röntgen-Strahlen behandelter Fall von Naevus pigmentosus piliferus" (in German).
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Freund or https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Freund (the latter in German).
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