Word: thyroidal
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Surefire Cure. In St. Albans, England, Frederick Thompson, shot in the neck by an alert householder whose house he was breaking into, startled police doctors when he suddenly recovered from a severe thyroid gland disorder...
However, they found another valuable treatment use for radio-iodine. Cancer of the thyroid is not a common disease, and most cases do not yield to radio-iodine...
...time, the thyroid-cancer colonies which spread through the body behave like little thyroid glands and pick up radio-iodine. Such a case was that of Norman Bennett...
Norman is a lanky boy of 13 who has been playing basketball this season at Madisonville (Ky.) Junior High, and hopes to play football next fall. Two years ago, despite surgery and X rays, Norman was wasting away with a spreading cancer of the thyroid. Then his doctor got him into the little (30-bed) hospital at Oak Ridge, Tenn., which is set aside for atomic medicine. There, Norman had an "atomic cocktail"-radioactive sodium iodide dissolved in water. The cancer colonies soaked up the iodine; from each radioactive atom, beta particles and gamma rays shot out to destroy cancerous...
...benefits of radio-iodine extend to patients with chronic, congestive heart disease and angina pectoris. If, as is common in such cases, the healthy thyroid's activity is too high for a damaged heart, then a dose of iodine-131 can be used instead of the surgeon's knife to reduce the gland. Two-thirds of the heart cripples so treated at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital show worthwhile improvement, and half of these are so much better that they can lead nearly normal lives. Equally gratifying, the treatment releases many patients from the agonizing "tight" pains...