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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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