The Arctic Aeromedical Laboratory's Thyroid Function Study A Radiological Risk and Ethical Analysis (1996) / Chapter Skim
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B. Summary of the Public Session
B. Summary of the Public Session
Pages 81-86
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Appc~i~ B Summary of the Public Session 81
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The following discussion sumxnarizes, but does not include in complete detail, the information obtained by guests at the public session. Information was provided by the Director of the Alaska Division of Public Health of the Department of Health and Social Services on State of Alaska current health concerns and programs, and its scientific and ethical concerns regarding human medical experimentation of Alaskans and military men during the period of the Cold War, and the iodine li3{ studies in particular.
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A physician from the Chief Andrew Isaacs Health Center of the Tanana Chiefs provided extensive infonnation on the health services in the interior of Alaska, the difficulties of modern health care delivery in such a rural area, and the most significant current causes of illness and death. She stated that there had been 11 cases of thyroid cancer since 1969 in the hospital records and two deaths from that disease; she had no way of finding the incidence of goiter for the area her health center serviced, but said it was a common problem.
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She also expressed outrage at the way Alaska Natives had been studied "like guinea pigs." Three concerned citizens knowledgeable in the recent history of Arctic Village and/or this particular study provided testimony to the Committee on the Alaska Natives' participation and difficult living conditions. One of the witnesses supported the contention that one woman from Arctic Village was pregnant at the time of the AAL study, and then mentioned that the mother of the brother and sister who had testified earlier in the day had been blind when the AAL tests were conducted on her.
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He mentioned also that he was in direct contact with the physicians of the ANS who were aware of a goiter problem in those communities, as thyroidectomies had been carried out on some interior Alaskan village members. He told us that in designing his iodine supplement experiment, he was trying to find out if the cold weather was affecting their thyroid activity or if there was some other cause for elevated thyroid activity in this regard he tested some subjects who had enlarged thyroids on purpose.
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Often, the Committee members were questioned by the audience on various technical subjects regarding radiation, radioisotopes, and medical research in order to obtain better knowledge of the Ii3i study. In many cases, the session became an information exchange for the lay audience to express their concerns over radiation in the Arctic in general, or the actions of the government.
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