Re: Lung cancer mortality from radon versus mortality from other<plus>Radon...

["Franz Schoenhofer" <franz.schoenhofer@CHELLO.AT>]

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-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----

Von: John Jacobus <jenday1@EMAIL.MSN.COM>

An: RADSAFE <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

Datum: Montag, 28. Jänner 2002 03:52

Betreff: Re: Lung cancer mortality from radon versus mortality from

other<plus>Radon...





>Howard,

>I am glad you and members of the audience, including several Noble Prize

>winners were convinced.  Did the members of the audience have the same

>well-founded background in epidemiology that you do?  I am sure you are

>aware of the story of N rays that were discovered at the beginning of this

>century in France.



Your comment comes in the year 2002, the N rays nonsense was known already

very shortly after their "discovery". This makes me wonder, what we will

think in 10 or 20 years on LNT and radon epidemiology...... Hopefully I will

live long enough to know the outcome!





>Also, what dose LNT have to do with medicine?  Your comments regarding

>radiation to boost the immune systems of AIDS-infected patients is

>interesting.  Why do you not put in a grant for the work?



How about having an x-ray treatment before having unsafe sex?





However, your

>comment about radiation to prevent restenosis makes me wonder how much you

>know about the subject of radiation in medicine.



I mentioned the same wondering in a personal mail: Radiation is used in

prevention of restenosis to kill cells and not to cause any hormesis. As

time goes by, other methods for preventing restenosis (chemical ones) slowly

evolve. I had two years ago two P-32 stents implanted, I still live, had no

restenosis, but were told that this type of stent did not significantly

reduce the percentage of restenosis. Maybe it paid off that I took my pills

and changed slightly my nutrition habits.



Best regards,



Franz







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