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ASTRO by Dana E. Backman - Virginia Beach, VA : Donning Co. Publishers, c2012. - 160 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Includes index.

Radiation therapy at the dawn of ASTRO : the state of the art in 1958 -- "Formalizing the informality" : a new society for American radiotherapists -- The ASTRO triad -- The American Club of Therapeutic Radiologists -- The American Society of Therapeutic Radiologists -- The largest society of therapeutic radiologists in the world, 1970/1979 -- ASTRO and the emergence of radiation therapy in the 1970s -- ASTRO in a decade of change, 1972/1982 -- ASTRO and long-range planning, 1982/1990 -- ASTRO in the 1990s : 1991/1998 -- ASTRO in a new century, 1999/2008 -- ASTRO today and tomorrow.

ISBN: 9781578645152 (hard cover : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2008032653

Subjects--Corporate Names:
American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology--History.
American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Cancer--Radiotherapy--Societies, etc.--History.--United States
Radiotherapy--Societies, etc.--History.--United States
Radiotherapy--history--United States.
Societies, Medical--history--United States.
History, 20th Century--United States.
History, 21st Century--United States.
Radiology--history--United States.

LC Class. No.: QB61 / .A87 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 520