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RE: Low dose stimulation produces immunity to cancer
Jim,
As a researcher told me, we can cure cancer in mice. In humans we have
problems. It is very common knowledge that transplanted tumors, or other
tissues are rejected by the body. That is why transplant patients are given
anti-rejection drugs. That is also why bone-marrow transplant patients are
given whole body irradiation to destroy their own bone marrow before the
transplant. This study shows that that stimulating the immune system
increases the rejection of transplanted tissue. I would have guessed as
much. The problem is that stimulating the immune system does very little,
if anything, to destroy one's own cancer cells.
It is interesting that the other mode of increasing lymphocytes is to raise
the animal's body temper. It was known for the days of the ancient Greeks
that fevers, in response to an infection, often lead to recovery of the
patient. What do I find interesting is that heating gives a better response
than x-rays (59.4% to 50%)! Maybe we should all take a hot bath before
getting cancer.
Have a good weekend.
-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
3050 Traymore Lane
Bowie, MD 20715-2024
E-mail: jenday1@email.msn.com (H)
-----Original Message-----
From: Muckerheide [mailto:muckerheide@attbi.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 9:03 PM
To: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu; rad-sci-l@ans.ep.wisc.edu
Subject: Low dose stimulation produces immunity to cancer
Friends,
J. B. Murphy (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences), studying
cancer immunity and the role of lymphocytes, reports that both natural and
induced immunity controls and destroys cancers in mice (specific cancers in
a specific strain), and that lymphocytes target and destroy those tumors. He
shows this by using the property of small doses of x-rays to suppress
lymphocytes. As lymphocytes are suppressed, the tumors are increasingly able
to become established and to grow rapidly.
. . .
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