Word: thyroid
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Later, skin cancer may develop at this site, said Dr. Morgan. Hidden from view are internal cancers (especially of the thyroid), which may take many years to develop, and leukemia or "cancer of the blood." If a woman has a pelvic X ray in the first weeks of pregnancy, the fetus may be damaged, to be aborted or stillborn, or the child may eventually develop leukemia. Completely hidden from diagnosis or measurement are genetic effects, which do not appear until a later generation...
Also receiving fellowships were Dr. Arthur P. Dempster, professor of Theoretical Statistics -- the concepts and reasoning processes of statistical inference; Dr. A. Stone Freedberg, associate professor of Medicine -- the effects of thyroid and other hormonal alternations on atrial intracellular potentials and jonic movements; Dr. Kenneth J. Gergen, assistant professor of Social Psychology -- an examination of benefice as an instrument of international policy...
...most active elements in the fallout has been iodine-131, which gets into grass, then into cows, then into milk, and then into children who drink the milk. In children, even more than in adults, the radioactive iodine (like ordinary iodine) is selectively attracted to the thyroid gland...
...over possible effects of fallout on children's health, then staged mass examinations last fall in St. George and in Safford, an Arizona town of similar size that has suffered no appreciable fallout. Among 2,000 children examined in St. George, 70 (or 3.5%) had nodules on their thyroid glands, as against only 25 out of 1,400 (or 1.75%) in Safford. Were the nodules cancerous? Was the fallout to blame...
Last week Surgeon General William H. Stewart of the U.S. Public Health Service announced the first results of the intensive study. No cancers have been found, he said. There are several cases of inflamed thyroids, and proportionately more of these are among the St. George children than among the Safford children. Added Dr. Stewart: inflammation of the thyroid seems to have increased recently in many widely separated parts of the U.S., and there is no proof that radiation, from fallout or other sources, has anything to do with...