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“It was not until 1929 that Foster Moore, whom I was privileged to assist, became the first to succeed in destroying retinoblastoma and conserve the eye by the interstitial insertion of a radon seed through a puncture in the sclera exactly over the centre of the base of the neoplasm.” With these words, given at the 1962 Doyne Memorial Lecture reviewing the conservative treatment of retinoblastoma, H.B. Stallard described his participation in the first brachytherapy procedure for treatment of this ocular tumor (Stallard 1962).
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Hernandez, J.C., Brady, L.W., Amendola, B.E., Shields, J.A., Shields, C.L. (1993). Plaque Brachytherapy in the Treatment of Retinoblastoma. In: Alberti, W.E., Sagerman, R.H. (eds) Radiotherapy of Intraocular and Orbital Tumors. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-97011-5_16
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