St. Ucorgo = 0 PRIVACY ACT MATERI AL REMOVED Av the University of Utah Dr, Marvin Hallison, pediatric ondocrinoloyist, Cavl Cheaberlain, a medical physicist in the x-ray department, and other spocialistsa carsicd out tests to cetormino the size of tne. thyroids and the rate at which they wera Functioning. The children wore injoctec many timsa with hormones and with Iodine-# 132, a form of radioactive iodine with a half-life of only 24 hours. They lay under une sensitive nose of scanning machines that counted the test radioactivity. ardlin cight children, abnormal thyroid tissue was surgically removed as a health moasuro and Sor microscopic study. i scLiner tia children nor their parents have been Overly concerned, although one . ~ . . ” . j ~ . waG annoyea decause Tenoval oF a cyst attached to his thyroid robbed Maga senool him of tho distinction of having two "Adan's applies." whose » Seventeen, was Sound through exploratory surgory to have a ‘DS Orotey asughtcr, narmmiegss thyroid condition definitely unrelated to radiation, said, "If we can add to the information about fallout that's all we care about. that Of course, if they had found. had cancer we would have teen real shook up." Recently, upon completion of the tests, ths results were announced by Dr. Willian Hi, Stowart, gurgeon general of the Public Health Service. Youne. This was reassuring. No thyroid cancer had been However, there was an unexplained high incidence of wnyroiditis, an inflawmatory condition with nodules but with no discomfort. vne chiidren doses . had , None of cined of any symptoms at all, but several have been put on daily of thyroid_or thyrexin to correct the trouble. Nines cases of thyroiditis wero. definitely diagnosed or suspected amoung the Utah children. cmong tho 1,400 youngsters from southern Arizona. Only thres wore found This made a rate ofalts per cent aiong tha children exposed to high fallout, as contrasted with eel por cent among those # in the "control" groupe "The significance of proven or suspected thyroiditis in the Utah and Arizona children is not clearly understood, " Dr. Stewart said. Ses "During recent yoars a general sc in thyroiditis has been noted in several widely separated areas in this countsg To dato, no relationship has been established between thyroiditis and Rees Aen PA vedi nation." , PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REM OVED .