[ RadSafe ] CT Screening Detected Radiologist's Kidney Cancer Early

[John Jacobus]

Dr. Looney,
I am sorry if you feel that way, but you have not
answered the fundamental question:  besides yourself,
how many other self-referrals have resulted in
positive findings of occult diseases?  

Since you are a radiologist, I think that one might
say that your exposures to ionizing radiation did not
produce a hormesis response.  Would you agree to that
statement?

As for your being a malcontent, I never said or
implied that.  But I would also ask if you continue to

get CT scans but I assume that you do as follow-up
studies.

--- "DR. GERALD LOONEY" <docger at hotmail.com> wrote:


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John, you are difficult to reason with:  of course the
tumor would have been visible in 2002 since the floor
and most of the bladder neck were covered with
transitional cell carcinoma less than a year later.  I
owe my clearance of renal cell carcinoma to
self-referral CT scanning.  Or by your reasoning, I am
a professional malcontent who survived by defying my
profession's myth-guided recommendations.  Gerry 





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From:  John Jacobus <crispy_bird at yahoo.com>
To:  "DR. GERALD LOONEY" <docger at hotmail.com>
CC:  radsafe <radsafe at radlab.nl>
Subject:  Re: [ RadSafe ] CT Screening Detected
Radiologist's Kidney Cancer Early
Date:  Wed, 9 Nov 2005 08:53:01 -0800 (PST)
>Dr. Looney,
>I guess I am supposed to be impressed.  This is an
>interesting ancedotal tale, but I am not sure of the
>relevancy to the issue of self-referral CT scanning.
I
>am sure what the issue of dirty bombs.
>
>If she had had the scan in 2002, do you think you
>would have been able to detect the tumor?  If she had
>the scan and it showed no tumor, what you say when
she
>was then diagnosed the next year?  Oops?  You said
>that it "probably had not yet spread when the scan
was
>scheduled/cancelled the previous year."  What is the
>probalility that the original mass was even
detectable
>in 2002?  What is the ratio of overt, active diseases
>that were discovered vs. the number of self-referral
>CT scans performed?
>
>Thank you for sending your personal opinions.  It is
>apparently the you are at odds with the professional
>societies on the benefits of self-referral CT scans.
>
>--- "DR. GERALD LOONEY" <docger at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
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>
>John, the "party-line" is the outmoded LNT
hypothesis,
>which is still followed by most of your colleagues
and
>professional organizations:  they do great harm while
>following the LNT and        promulgating paranoia,
>yet proclaiming fealty to PRIMUM NON NOCERE.  Nancy
>had no clearcut medical reason when the original
>full-body scan was scheduled in 2002, but she had
>clear symptomatology the next summer with bladder
>obstruction and hematuria.  On regional CT and
>discovery, it was hoped the tumor was still enclosed
>within the bladder capsule, but at cystectomy, a
>couple of nodes were positive indicating that it had
>just started to spread (and probably had not yet
>spread when the scan was scheduled/cancelled the
>previous year).  AFIO is Assoc of Former Intelligence
>Officers, including a large number of nuclear weapons
>designers and physicists who strongly believe what
>they were taught: the LNT!  My renal cell carcinoma
>was totally asymptomatic but fully enclosed and fully
>removed, which would NOT have been possible if I had
>waited for symptoms.  I now believe that the LNT is
>the greatest scientific mistake of the previous
>century, and leaves a horrible legacy for our
children
>and grandchildren.  A dirty bomb will produce
>negligible (but measureable) levels of radiation and
>close down American cities unnecessarily for decades.
>To me, it is dishonest and distorted to compare
>full-body scans to being in Hiroshima, and yet the
ACR
>tolerates this deceit.  I personally believe that the
>medical profession is fully in favor of progress, but
>change is out of the question!  Gerry
>


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On Oct. 5, 1947, in the first televised White House address, President Truman asked Americans to refrain from eating meat on Tuesdays and poultry on Thursdays to help stockpile grain for starving people in Europe. 

-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com


	
		
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