Alternative Medicine for Howard

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Howard,



SEE: http://nccam.nih.gov/fi/concepts/funding.html



Funds are available from the NIH to explore possible alternatives like low 

dose radiation.  Perhaps you could apply here?



Then you too can be performing research like this:



Oncol Rep 2000 Sep-Oct;7(5):941-4



Low radon doses sensitize MCF-7 human breast cancer cells to taxol.



Soto J, Sainz C, Gonzalez-Lamuno D, Falkenbach A, Cos S.



Department of Medical Physics, School of Medicine, University of Cantabria, 

39011 Santander, Spain.



We studied whether human breast cancer cells show increased sensitivity to 

the chemotherapeutic agent taxol when they have been treated with low 

radiation doses (1.7-3.2 x 10(-3) Gy) from the gas radon. To this end, MCF-7 

cells were cultivated in a medium either with or without dissolved radon for 

3 days and then exposed to taxol (50 nM). Cells exposed to low doses of 

radon and then to a concentration of 50 nM of taxol exhibit a lower 

proliferation rate and a lower viability than cells treated with the same 

concentration of taxol but not irradiated. These findings indicate an 

important interaction of radon and taxol in the inhibition of MCF-7 cell 

growth.



Don





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