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Re: Alternative Medicine for Howard



In a message dated 1/25/02 4:13:37 PM Mountain Standard Time, healthrad@HOTMAIL.COM writes:


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.


Radon is an alpha emitter.  Is the effect due to alpha irradiation or the  radon daughters?  Is the same effect observed with other alpha emitters?
Ruth Weiner, Ph. D.
ruthweiner@aol.com