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RE: First neutron therapy procedure on the explanted human liver [FW]



Don,

It is not so much a question of letting them die, but think of complicated

surgery involved which obviously involves a number of risks.  If they have

to remove the organ, there must have been a lot of concerns about the risk

to the patient from the exposures to the neutron fluence.  We certainly do

not excise and then replace a cancerous prostate to treat it with

teletherapy.



I think this gives a new meaning to the term the "practice" of medicine.



-- John 

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist 

3050 Traymore Lane

Bowie, MD  20715-2024



E-mail:  jenday1@email.msn.com (H)      



-----Original Message-----

From: dkosloff1 [mailto:dkosloff1@email.msn.com]

Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 9:15 AM

To: Jacobus, John (OD/ORS); Franta, Jaroslav; Radsafe (E-mail)

Subject: Re: First neutron therapy procedure on the explanted human

liver [FW]





Good point John, better to just let them die.  That might be OK for people

like my mother, who died at age 85 after almost pointless major cancer

surgery (nothing bizarre about that) or like my father-in-law who died at

age 75 after almost pointless brain surgery and radiation treatments

(nothing bizarre about that either).  But perhaps younger people deserve a

chance to live a little longer.



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