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Twenty‐four cases of embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma seen over a period of 16 years were reviewed and the effectiveness of radiation therapy on the primary tumor was studied. The results in 13 patients treated by radiation therapy alone and in combination with surgery and chemotherapy indicate that this tumor is moderately radiosensitive and can be locally controlled for significant periods of time with radiation therapy. Many patients whose primary lesion has been controlled will die of metastatic disease. In spite of this fact the three patients in this series who survived more than 5 years justify an optimistic approach to the treatment of this disease.