Re: Wart Removal

[Franz Schoenhofer <schoenho@via.at>]

At 11:09 08.02.2000 -0600, you wrote:
>A co-worker told us of a childhood story in which he had a wart removed
from his hand via some type of radiation process.  This would have been
approximately 30 to 40 years ago.  Is anyone familiar with this type of
process, and what type of source, techniques were used?  He now has skin
cancer on that arm and hand.  I would expect that this type process is not
used anymore?
>
>Scott Nelson
>Radiological Engineering
>scottnelson@alliant-energy.com

Scott,

Your message puts up some remembrance from my childhood, which was about 40
years ago. I remember talks about wart removal by using "radium
irradiation". I suppose that everything concerning radiation was then
attributed to "radium", but it might have been exact, because hardly any
other radiation sources might have been available at this time in my country.

Curiously enough I remember from my early childhood that being at "Prater",
an amusement park in Vienna, my parents met a friend who spoke about having
been "irradiated" too much in the hospital and that this was related to
something which might have been a wart. I remember that he had a bandage
somewhere (I really do not recall where) and that this was the reason of my
parents asking him what had happened. At this time I surely was not
expecting that I would  write decades later about it to RADSAFE!

This is a personal view, scientific evidence might be presented by several
other competent persons!

Regards,

Franz


Franz Schoenhofer
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e-mail: schoenho@via.at

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