Ingestion of the short-lived isotope iodine-131, with its well-known risk of thyroid cancer when absorbed in the thyroid glands of children and young people, was the only major radiation-related health effect of the Chernobyl accident on the public.

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Ebert has fought cancer in his thyroid and salivary glands, and lost the ability to speak following surgery.

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The good news was that four of them are in sound working order, a shock given that I don't even know where they are, and thus haven't watered them lately. (In Western medicine-speak, Bramham detected imbalances in my thyroid, thymus and adrenal glands.) To address such afflictions a client would be prescribed two spa treatments and two hours of exercise daily, all custom-tailored, plus a nutritional consultation.

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Three-quarters have involved my specialty, endocrine surgery surgery for endocrine organs such as the thyroid, the parathyroid, and the adrenal glands.

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