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Probs with NIN
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hopitus typed: On Apr 9, 5:31 pm, wrote: hopitus wrote: (inverse square law)_. That big round thing on top ("gantry") *rotates* 360o* around whatever is on the target pad (under this guy's head) and with precise aim, bombards the tumor and the tumor *alone* with yea whater dose of radiation patient's specialist docs have ordered. This is not like chemotherapy and does not nauseate patients. It is, though, radiation that is calculated to *kill* cancerous cells. It is so powerful that the tech ruinniing it is in lanothr adjoininng room watching patient through a radiation-proof lead glass window. I wonder how that is different from other radiation treatment that is used on cancer patients. Or is it just a newer and more precise way of administering radiation therapy? Joyce No, not new...just "different". Example of "other" radiation treatment is the radioactive nuclide "pill" given to thyroid cancer patients that "kills" only that organ. Believe me, the radiology docs know exactly how much nuke is in every treatment, because *they* dole it out. Nuclear med techs (more like my class tech but they stay in their own dept.) are the ones who supervise the "thyroid pill" I mean. That massive machine I showed you the link pic of is, if you will, the "big gun" When I started in radiology, the Nuclide (bigtime more radioactive than what's in a "thyroid pill") used in the accelerators was Cobalt. That's obsolete now; I dunno what the nuclide these days is.Not every hospital facility even has a "radiation therapy" dept. Those machines are dangerous, require monitoring, and are very expensive to operate and maintain. When my mother was diagnosed with uterine cancer, one of the possible post-op treatments after the hysterectomy was to inject some tiny iddy biddy radiactive grains at the remaining edge closest to the cancer site, jsut as a precaution. However, that was if the cancer had gotten past a certain stage (think it was stage 2 and above, can't remember now) and it hadn't, so the only care she has now is very regular examinations - every 3 months for 2 years after the surgery. I can't remember the name of this treatment now, but its fairly new. It seems counter-intuitive to intentionally leave radioactive material inside the body, but apprantly this method is more successful than any other for this particular cancer. Yowie |
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[OT] Probs with NIN
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Cheryl typed: On 4/8/2011 8:43 AM, Yowie wrote: Hi Everyone, I'm having problems paying for my NIN news services this year via their Click&Buy service. I have no idea whether I've paid them their overdue fee, or the subscription or anything thats going on with them. I don't trust their e-mails and the only way I'll know for sure is when my credit card statement comes in at the end of the month. As a consequence, I may lose my NIN subscription for a little while until I figure out whether I've paid them or not, and if not, how to pay them without involving Click&Buy or other services that my bank think are 'untrustworthy'. I think I have AIOE as a back up, and if it really gets bad, there's GoogleGroups (shudder), but if I have lost the subscription to NIN, I may not be posting to Usenet much until I figure it out. Purrs to all in the mean time, Yowie Click and Buy is exactly why I stopped using NIN. I just didn't trust them with my credit card info. Good luck. I have had no issues on the Click&Buy end - its just my bank who is getting all stupid about an overseas transaction. How about a bit of customer service and *ring me* to see if the transaction is legit, before blocking it and freezing my card. Since you blocked it sometime thursday, I've copped 3 'bad transaction' fees from other places that usually direct debit my card, and which I'm sure you'll expect me to pay. Those fees are going to be more than the lousy AUS$14 or so that Click&Buy wanted to debit, and you do this to 'protect my finances'. But you'll just wait till I can contact you (business hours, Monday to Friday only) before fixing things, meanwhile, these direct debits come out at *any* time, leading to more 'bad transaction 'fees,and probably an 'overdue' fee too. All to 'protect my interests'? yeah, right. Gosh I hate banks. Yowie |
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