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Conclusion: if Learned had had thyroid cancer, the radioactive iodine (the thyroid gland shows an affinity for iodine) would have attacked the cancerous tissue. With the caution which characterizes all statements on cancer. Physicist Evans emphasized that radioactive iodine was effective only against cancer of the thyroid...
Medicine, too, said Seaborg, can use the magic pile, both for studying diseases and for curing them. Radioactive iodine, for instance, follows ordinary iodine through the human body. Its rate of accumulation in the thyroid gland (shown by holding a radiation counter near the throat) diagnoses accurately the condition of the gland in goiter and related diseases (see MEDICINE...
...Johns Hopkins, keen, blue-eyed Dr. Young soon developed the virtuosity he had lacked in San Antonio. He devised many new operations, many new instruments to perform them with. Mortality in operations for removal of the prostate gland was 20% when he began. His record in 3,000 operations: 3%. He was famed for: 1) his part in developing Mercurochrome as a bloodstream disinfectant (now superseded by sulfa drugs and penicillin); 2) a radical operation for cancer of the prostate; 3) a method of removing the prostate through the urinary outlet; 4) operations which made many a pseudohermaphrodite nearly normal...
Instead of planting the gland in the scrotum, Dr. Frumkin put it in a pocket in the colonel's thigh where its veins and arteries could be linked with the big vein and artery of the leg, thus insuring a good blood supply. The results were spectacular. The colonel's piping voice went down, his red beard sprouted anew, the fat around his hips disappeared, and he began to take an interest in women again...
...operation on the colonel, Dr. Frumkin got much the same results that can be achieved by regular hormone injections or by pellets of slow-dissolving hormones implanted under the skin (TIME, Oct. 3, 1938). Many U.S. doctors say that such a grafted gland will inevitably wither & die after, at most, four years...