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Re: The "right" answer

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.





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-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

e-mail:  crispy_bird@yahoo.com



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