The 40-year experience of the department of radiotherapy for lymphoma of the «RRCRST named after. ac. A.M. Granov» of the Ministry of Health of Russia from the standpoint of today is discussed in the article. Modern methods of radiation treatment of Hodgkin's lymphoma at the stages of their sequential development, unique methods of local and total skin radio-therapy with electrons in skin lymphomas, the experience of radiotherapy in patients with lymphomas of various structures of the organ of vision, and the features of fractionation in radiotherapy for patients with plasma-cell tumors are considered. The department developed an original method of medium-dose total body radiotherapy in terms of the conditioning regime before allogeneic transplantation of hematopoietic stem cells for patients with leukemia and lymphomas, for the first time the experience of radiation therapy of patients with acute leukemia with local lesions of various organs and tissues was accumulated.
