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...thing to a woman," says Ruth Roseland, a Quincy, Mass., psychologist who counsels mastectomy patients. "Women feel that they have done something wrong, that mastectomy is a form of punishment." Some become bitter and angry. Others become withdrawn and depressed, particularly as they begin to undergo the frequently debilitating X-ray or drug treatments usually necessary to control any residual cancers...
...firmly believe that the place to stop hijackers is at the aircraft's boarding gate," said FAA Director John H. Shaffer. So did most people, apparently, for there were no significant protests when 007-like X-ray and metal detection gadgets appeared in airports in February 1973. Americans generally considered, and still consider, such blanket security to be a small price to pay for an end to hijackings...
Research Program. Mary first learned of concern about the X-rayed children last June when she read a newspaper article about the efforts by doctors to locate and examine them. When she visited her parents in Wisconsin a few weeks later, she learned that she, too, had had the X-ray treatments. After seeing her family physician, who assured her that he could detect no thyroid abnormality, she agreed to become part of a research program launched by the Medical College of Wisconsin at Milwaukee County General Hospital...
Doctors at the college have gone out of their way to locate and examine (free of charge) those who, as children, received the X-ray treatment. The doctors examine the necks of all patients for abnormal growths. They also test patient response to agents known to trigger allergic reactions; the tests determine whether the patients' immune systems (which are partly controlled by the thymus) have been affected...
...year-old mother has already died of a thyroid cancer that doctors believe was caused by X-ray treatments administered when she was an infant. But for most, the damage has not been irreparable. Doctors have found thyroid abnormalities in 195 of the first thousand patients examined under the Wisconsin program, but a good many of these growths proved to be benign and were treated successfully. A New York State program that has traced patients since 1955 found only 19 cases of cancer when it studied 3,000 patients in 1963, well above what would normally be expected but considerably...