Radiation Damage to Thoracic Tissues.

Radiotherapy to the thorax in conventional dosage appears to be capable of causing damage to any of the tissues in the thoracic wall or within the thoracic cavity. Since the earliest days of x-ray treatment radiation changes in the skin have been such an everyday problem that they scarcely warrant discussion here except to note that with the advent of new radiotherapeutic techniques they are becoming less frequent and less severe.