Radiation Quotes

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What happened was that I had polyps on my vocal cords for about six years. I had them lasered off each time. But then I had a little twinge of a problem while I was doing Rising Sun (1993). I couldn`t get the timbre of my voice right. I couldn`t get the variation and enunciation as comfortable as I wanted. So I went back to the doctor and he suggested radiation. I went for six weeks and didn`t have any side effects or problems. Then I made the announcement that I had done radiation treatment. The publicists said not to do it, that it would set off an explosion. But I thought, "If you do radiation and it`s a success, why not speak about it?"

- Sean Connery

I`ve gone through back surgery a couple times, and of course, my radiation treatments for six weeks got me to the point where I was not able to play at the level that I was accustomed to.

- Mario Lemieux

I studied naturopathic medicine in college and there was nothing in my studies that referred to radon as a therapy. It`s been interesting to see ionizing radiation used as a treatment.

- Elizabeth Kelly

It is an excellent treatment for acute promyelocytic leukemia, and has dramatically improved the cure rate and survival rate for patients with this disease. It also appears to prevent recurrence of head and neck cancer in those patients that have been treated with surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy,

- Gary Lewis

People don`t know about radiation. And there`s so much radioactive material being transported each day.

- John Bush

Many people who did not die right away came down with nausea, headache, diarrhea, malaise, and fever, which lasted several days. Doctors could not be certain whether some of these symptoms were the result of radiation or nervous shock.

- John Hersey

The doctors realized in retrospect that even though most of these dead had also suffered from burns and blast effects, they had absorbed enough radiation to kill them. The rays simply destroyed body cells - caused their nuclei to degenerate and broke their walls.

- John Hersey

In some cases radiation reduces the incidence of cancer.

- John Cameron

My main frustration is the fear of cancer from low dose radiation, even by radiologists.

- John Cameron

I am now almost certain that we need more radiation for better health.

- John Cameron

When I entered the field in July 1958 I believed what they told me about radiation risks. I spent much effort reducing the dose to patients in radiology.

- John Cameron

Most medical physicists work in the physics of radiation oncology making sure that the desired dose is given to the cancer and the dose to normal tissues are minimized.

- John Cameron

Too many radiologists still believe there is a risk from a chest x-ray. Few radiologists can explain radiation to the patient in words the patient can understand.

- John Cameron

It is likely that we need more radiation to improve our longevity.

- John Cameron

I was 22 years old. But I`m still here. And one reason I`m still here is that I`ve got lots of ionizing radiation. That`s what`s good for you, for your immune system. There have been a lot of studies that show that a low level of it is good for you. The problem is they don`t know what the level should be.

- Peter Sellars

I will continue to push for doubling the strength of the U.S. Border Patrol, and to make sure that every cargo container that enters this nation is screened for radiation and potential weapons of mass destruction.

- Amir Abdulzahra

It took me 45 minutes to get in all of the suits and putting all the dosimeters on me so that they knew how much radiation I got and the protective boots and everything.

- Andrew Rotherham

There are allowable limits for radiation going - I mean there`s radiation all around us. There`s radiation from your television set. There`s radiation from your computer. There`s radiation actually occurring in the ground.

- Andrew Rotherham

Nobody could tell us or really had a very good idea, if there were a massive release of radiation, what kind of medical treatment people were going to need and this or that, or, indeed, whether there would be medical personnel around.

- Andrew Rotherham

There were schools and hospitals who were ready to take people with undescribed injuries, but not necessarily ready to take people with severe radiation poisoning.

- Andrew Rotherham

We were talking about radiation, which generates an enormous amount of fear. This was unknown and so there were no plans for that.

- Andrew Rotherham

It was contaminated with extremely low radiation levels. It was comparable to a normal background radiation level. We were told by regulatory agencies that it was not an issue.

- Andy Pazder

(But Etheridge still had to have the lump removed. She still had to go through radiation and chemotherapy. And) you can`t say 100% that you have been cured of breast cancer until you die at 95 of stroke, ... There`s always the possibility of it coming back.

- Barbara Lawton