Re: Alternative Medicine for Howard

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

Howard,



Then why do you complain the 'establishment" does not fund studies of that 

type when you do not take the time to even apply?  If you feel that the 

funding agency is putting pressure on you to have a specific finding, make 

it public at that time and give the money back.



Don



>From: hflong@postoffice.pacbell.net

>Reply-To: hflong@pacbell.net

>To: Rad health <healthrad@hotmail.com>, radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

>Subject: Re: Alternative Medicine for Howard

>Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 10:41:23 -0800

>

>"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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