Word: thyroids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could such a thing have happened? The hospital is still investigating the incident, and saying little. But its spokesman did report that both doctors spotted the error in mid-operation and halted their work. Stranger still, the doctor mistakenly operating on Mrs. Edmondson's thyroid discovered and removed a benign nodule while the doctor mistakenly operating on Mrs. Robinson's vertebrae cured her of an unrelated pain in her leg by somehow relieving pressure on her sciatic nerve...
...Instead of a "periodic" (usually interpreted to mean once a year) general checkup for cancer, including physical examination of the breasts and pelvis, testicles and prostate, thyroid, lymph nodes, mouth and skin, the A.C.S. now suggests one every three years between ages 20 and 40, and annually thereafter...
...Twelve babies have no thyroid function at all--the doctors expected one," she said, attributing the rise to the low level radiation discharged by the plant...
...sponsored by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission delivered another blow by suggesting that Unit 2 came closer to melting down than anyone-even the Met-Ed officials in charge on the scene-realized at the time. Nor has Met-Ed helped its own cause. An increase in the incidence of thyroid problems in babies born in the area around the plant since the accident was quickly dismissed; medical authorities found nonnuclear explanations for most of the cases. But when the company twice released small quantities of radioactive krypton gas from the damaged reactor in February, people in the area were angry...