be inconsistent with earlier dose factors.
Later on, it is noted that unusually
high levels may have masked findings which would have indicated that thyroid
function was not normal in many of the exposed persons.
Granted, again baseline
information was lacking--however, considering the importance of the studies
both to the scientific world and to the people themselves, it appears that a
certain amount of overconfidence in finding negative results in the future
prevailed, where prudence and curiosity should have reigned.
Vinally, in the findings and information connected with the thyroid, the
Committee is extremely interested to know if the person whose parathyroid gland
was accidentally severed at the "pedicule" was ever informed of this fact,
Secondly, the Committee is curious as to whether this incident had any connections
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with future thyroid operations being performed in the mainland United States as
opposed to the Naval Hospital in Guam,
Hopefully, the Committee's query will be
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Miscarriages, Stillbirths, Fertility
The Committee notes that despite the importance of determining whether or
not the incidence of miscarriages, and of certain stillborn infants, there was
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no intensive effort to have a competent medical person available to determine
whether these deliveries were possibly connected with radiation.
Again, the
question of statistical significance must come to the fore--however, the Committee
is of the opinion that despite the small number of people, this situation should
have had closer attention.
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The Committee understands that there are certain kinds
radiation which can be observed in the products of miscarriages;
examination of such may not have confirmed their relation to radiation, but it
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would then have been a matter of record, a record which could have been used to
indicate that there possibly were no radiation-induced effects,
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