Re: Radiation and taste perception

["Gibbs, S Julian" <s.julian.gibbs@vanderbilt.edu>]

Alteration and loss of taste perception is a well known 
effect of radiation.  Ask any radiation oncologist.  It is 
always (almost) temporary.  See two papers years ago by 
Alan Conger in Radiation Research, 37:31, 1969 and 53:338, 
1973.

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