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From: jayne fischer
Sent: Monday, May 30, 2011 11:25 AM
To: insiemecontroilcancro2@gmail.com; v.vigna@smatteo.pv.it
Subject: Nomination of BNL's RatCAP project to the Leonardo da Vinci competition

 

To the organizers of the Leonardo da Vinci Competition: 

I would like to nominate a project from Brookhaven National Laboratory for your competition that uses particle detection for early cancer diagnosis.

Luckily, I have not had cancer but friends and relatives of mine have, and I don’t know of another disease that causes so much fear in people.

I read in the press release dated May 26th, 2011 that we all pay indirectly $856 annually for cancer, so I don’t understand why with all this money the incidence of cancer is increasing.  I don’t mind spending $856 if I felt it was doing some good, but it doesn’t seem that way.

That’s why I was interested in your competition because I believe early detection is the best chance we have to eradicate cancer.   And when I read that it would also be open to the public and I could watch the process live via the web then I really wanted to help.

So when I read that Brookhaven National Laboratory did not plan to participate, I was surprised and don’t understand why not.  Perhaps they are afraid they cannot compete, but I believe the success of this competition, and therefore the success for early cancer detection depends upon as many projects as possible being compared. 

The project I found from them, and that I am therefore nominating, is attached to this email.  It is the RatCAP project.  I am keeping it within the 15 page limit.  There are also 3 references below.  

http://replicator.phenix.bnl.gov/WWW/publish/woody/PET/RatCAP/EuroMed_NIM_RatCAP.pdf

http://mysbfiles.stonybrook.edu/%7Esatowers/SBU%20Physics%20Friday%20Afternoon%20Seminar%20091809.ppt.pdf

http://jnumedmtg.snmjournals.org/cgi/content/meeting_abstract/51/2_MeetingAbstracts/1286

Thank you for organizing this competition.

Sincerely,

Jayne Fischer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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