Re: Alternative Medicine for Howard

["Rad health" <healthrad@HOTMAIL.COM>]

I just requested a copy of the paper, so I am not sure. My guess would be 

the gas.  My point was however, that if Howard was truly interested in 

pursuing his double blind studies of low dose radiation, funds have been set 

aside for this type of research.



Don



>From: RuthWeiner@AOL.COM

>Reply-To: RuthWeiner@AOL.COM

>To: healthrad@HOTMAIL.COM, hflong@pacbell.net

>CC: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

>Subject: Re: Alternative Medicine for Howard

>Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 19:08:26 EST

>

>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





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