Guest guest Posted March 17, 2000 Report Share Posted March 17, 2000 Remember when Redhen (or was it ) shared the news of a new lab test, the transferrin receptor assay for assessing the effects of ionizing radiation on cells? The article about it is in the archives and on Atomic Women and the researcher is Dr. Gong. I wrote him a while back suggesting that he test RAI treated GD patients, both short and long term. I heard from him today and he is interested in discussing this Although we already know that ionizing radiation affects our stem cells, these tests will provide GD patients with an idea of how long the effects last and how severe they are. So I need input. I already talked to U and she wants to be tested. I need to know how many other RAI treated patients are interested in this and if they are willing to pay for the test if he decides to just offer to test us, and we use the data for our own information or informal study. I should be talking to him early next week so please let me know if you're interested so I can have an idea of how many samples we can provide. I'll probably talk to some but not all of the many internet thyroid groups re this. Even if you haven't had RAI, I'd appreciate your feedback. To be a valid study we should run GD patients with similar dates of diagnosis who haven't received RAI. The effects of our uptake scans could even be considerable. The original study reports that this test can measure accumulated cell damage from ionizing radiation--one of the major causes of cancer-long before any physical signs are evident. . elaine aka daisy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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