[Right Wing Assault]

Without all that radiation giving him cancer, the poor guy might have lived to 97.

[VOA]

Without all that radiation giving him cancer, the poor guy might have lived to 97.

Even at the epicenter of political correctness called UCLA...
the Radiaion Safety office would admit in their lectures that
exposure to low-levels of radiation appears to actually increase
life-span in lab animals.

[GSlob]

"Without all that radiation giving him cancer, the poor guy might have lived to 97."
Nah. Were he not irradiated, he'd be 120 long ago.

[ErnBatavia]

In the late forties, the medical community did some really weird stuff with radiation.

My little bro was born in 1949 and shortly thereafter developed pneumonia*. At the age of forty, he developed a fibrous chest tumor, which necessitated the removal of a perfectly good lung.

*Thinking back, my mother recalled that the "treatment" for his pneumonia was to put him on a table and zap his torso with an unknown dose from something like an X-Ray machine.

Who knows if there was any tie-in...