Re: Alternative Medicine for Howard

[hflong@postoffice.pacbell.net]

"Who pays the piper, calls the tune."

No, thanks.



Howard Long



Rad health wrote:



> 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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