 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | I read a long time ago that that cigarette smoke actually attracts radioactive particles and that the reason that the lower lobes of the lung are so frequently involved in lung cancer is the weight of the particles causes them to settle to the bottom. I wonder if this is an update to that theory.
Years ago they sold antistatic dust brushes for phonograph records that had Polonium -210 in it.
Gary Allsebrook
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Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2
Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy)
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