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Re: The "right" answer



Also - considering the output and energy of a Grenz Ray machine the skin

dose was surely much higher.  I would assume the bulk of the cancers

were probably skin cancers in the affected area - but I don't know this

for sure - clarification would be appreciated.



Using average dose as meaning anything at all presupposes LNT to be

correct.  Especially in SI units - which are risk based and have little

meaning without LNT.



John Jacobus wrote:

> 

> The doses averaged dose was 90 mGy.  I think 90 mSv (9

> rem) is pretty low.  What do you consider low dose?

> 

> --- Ted de Castro <tdc@xrayted.com> wrote:

> > >

> > > Furthermore, what are some of the long-term

> > effects of

> > > LDR?  LDR has certainly shown to be beneficial in

> > some

> > > cases.  However, I am sure you remember the

> > studies of

> > > children irradiated for Tinea capitis (ringworm).

> > > Irradiation cured their infection, but at the

> > price of

> > > increased cancer. Another case of "exordinary

> > claim"

> > > of a cure.

> >

> > Irrelevant.  Those were by no stretch of the

> > imagination "low" doses.

> 

> =====

> -- John

> John Jacobus, MS

> Certified Health Physicist

> e-mail:  crispy_bird@yahoo.com

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