Re: Breast Cancer...Some Ideas

[Ted de Castro <tdc@xrayted.com>]

JPreisig@aol.com wrote:
 followed by neutron on Carbon-13, thereby producing C-14.  Do Cancerous
> breasts (i.e. the tumors) have elevated levels of Carbon-14???  Other
> reactions
> are possible.

Why would they???

All surface carbon would see the same cosmic ray flux - so the isotope
ratio would be the same!

We are also talking extremely minute quantities here.
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