“But then, ten, fifteen or eighteen years ago, when the term “radiation sickness” did not exist, X-ray radiation had seemed such a straightforward, reliable and foolproof method, such a magnificent achievement of modern medical technique, that it was considered retrograde, almost a sabotage of public health, to refuse to use it and to look to other, parallel or roundabout methods. They were afraid only of acute immediate damage to tissue and bone, but even in those days they rapidly learned to avoid that. They irradiated with wild enthusiasm. Even benign tumors. Even small children.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, “The Cancer Ward”, 1968
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