Re: Low dose stimulation produces immunity to cancer

["Bjorn Cedervall" <bcradsafers@HOTMAIL.COM>]

>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.



But, he reports that their finding that at even lower doses the lymphocytes 

are NOT suppressed, but stimulated!

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Referring to the last sentence - what exactly is meant by stimulation?



Bjorn Cedervall   bcradsafers@hotmail.com

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PS. Radiation victims: About ten hours ago I gave a reference (from 1902) to 

a tumor in an X-ray ulcer but it hasn't showed up yet. Wonder why.



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