GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS
Hajek1 advocated the use of a combination of surgical intervention and irradiation in tumors of the head and neck. He gave statistics concerning 46 malignant tumors of the nose, sinuses and upper jaw seen during the last ten years, 4 of which were sarcomas and 42 of which were carcinomas. Only 10 of these patients experienced good results and were well for from one and a half to twelve years. Hajek expressed the belief that treatment with radium gives better results than surgical intervention. He advocated intensive irradiation, disregarding necrosis of the bone. The good results were not lasting in the nasopharynx. He treated 4 patients with sarcomas who lived from one to two years. The results were even more unsatisfactory in cases of carcinoma. In the case of fibroma of the nasopharynx, he advocated radical surgical exposure, then implantation of radium. He reported 13 tumors of