Re: Radiation = cancer cure?

[Jim Muckerheide <jmuckerheide@delphi.com>]

Hi Glenn,

Yes, that's right. High-dose radiation kills cells in "normal" radiation
therapy protocols. Low-dose radiation therapy (not including
anti-body-targeted radioimmunotherapy-RIT) successfully treats and prevents
cancer by stimulating immune responses.

Again, it's not my data. Read those few examples provided of the MANY data
sources from the peer-reviewed science literature, and articles by scientists
directly involved in the research that say it.  (And I offered to send more
data that are not on the web-site.) {Consider even that the LNT rad protection
interests actively suppress such research!)

See the abstracts for papers from the Nat'l Inst of Health MedLine. There are
many more abstracts on the subject (you can start by hitting the "Related
Articles" link from those, though you won't get all directly relevant 'hits').
Do your own Medline search.

For some direct data, see, e.g., 
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=8896586&dopt=Abstract
Ishii K, Hosoi Y, Yamada S, Ono T, Sakamoto K. Decreased incidence of thymic
lymphoma in AKR mice as a result of chronic, fractionated low-dose total-body
X irradiation. Radiat Res. 1996 Nov;146(5):582-5.
[Note: This is Rad Research which does not publish much of the anti-LNT
results it receives. And the rad-protectionists consider the medical
literature "outside" sources.]

For more specific immune function dose-response, see e.g.:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=8875803&dopt=Abstract
Ishii K, Hosoi Y, Ono T, Sakamoto K. Enhanced proliferation and IL-1
production of mouse splenocytes by low-dose whole-body X-irradiation. Physiol
Chem Phys Med NMR. 1996;28(1):7-14.

For some non-cancer data health benefits data, see, e.g.:
http://cnts.wpi.edu/rsh/Data_Docs/1-2/3/3/Rev%202%201233list.html
Of course, if you don't trust our data, see the Medline source:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=1750226&dopt=Abstract

(Go from these sources with "Related Articles," etc.)

Immune system stimulation has been known for >100 years. In 1896 Schrader at
U. Missouri-Columbia responded to a statement by the renown JJ Thompson in the
UK that Roentgen's x-rays would not be bactericidal, by irradiating Guinea
pigs and injecting them with diphtheria bacillus. Unexposed controls died
within 24 hours. When animals were exposed to X rays before inoculation, they
survived. See:
http://cnts.wpi.edu/rsh/Data_Docs/1-3/1/1314lu95.html

This has been repeatedly confirmed in many experiments before the data was
suppressed in the mid-30's.

(Also, re the ref to Jake Spalding's work at LANL, the original LANL Report is
on the LANL Library web site in pdf form. It's co-authored by Bob Thomas [HPS
Fellow] originally at Lovelace, LANL, Head of DOE Research, Center for Human
Radiobiology Director at Argonne-that was killed by DOE as the radium dial
painters data threatened to overwhelm the LNT), and Gary Tietjen.

See also some additional human data literature sources at:
http://cnts.wpi.edu/rsh/Data_Docs/1-2/3/3/1233list.html

Thanks.

Regards, Jim
muckerheide@mediaone.net
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GlennACarlson@aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 8/14/2000 4:52:08 PM Central Daylight Time,
> jmuckerheide@delphi.com writes:
> 
> > There should be no doubt that low-dose radiation has a very specific immune
> >  system response. It is being used to cure cancer,
> 
> Isn't this statement, at best, a misleading overstatement.  I thought
> radiation therapy was premised on the greater sensitivity of cancer cells to
> the damaging effects of radiation versus noncancer cells, i.e., the radiation
> kills cancer cells before (or with greater likelihood than) normal cells.
> Are you saying that radiation therapy "cures" cancer by stimulating the
> immune response?
> 
> Glenn A. Carlson, P.E.
> GlennACarlson@aol.com
> 
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