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Department of Pathology school of Medicine University of Califorxia Los Angales, California %X)24 As you may have gathered, Hugh Pratt has failed to brf.ngme up-to-date on all of the arrangements that he had made with variow tudividuals participating in the Marshall Island Program. It Ae only t0d8y thag I was brought up-to-date on these arrangements by Mr. Mohring that speclftc consultant ~=geIUellt8 had been made. Insomuch as poesible, the Medical Department will hoaor theee. X am beg$nnlng to wonder what othur eurprlsee wait In the wings for me to discover. You will have received my earlier commmlcatim by now. I think it is very important for us to mve ahead on setting up a thyrotd penal to establish the matrix for description of thyro%d lesions. I have mdified the draft letter that you left with me and a copy for Met personal regards, BEST COPY AVAILABLE
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Your institution has participated in providing definitive surgical for those Marshall Island natives accidentally exposed to fallout radiation in 1954 and who developed thyroid tumors. The Medical Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, has been responsible for the medical and sctentiffc aspects of the study end care of radiation effects in this population. For medical, scientific, and legal seasons, i& is necessary to have a central repository of all pertineat medical records at Brookhaven to provide ready access to medical end to legal review. T&e development of thyroid neoplasm has been a serious aequelae of the radiation exposure. It is essemtial that these materials be assembled in one place. Our records indicate that such materiale in your possession: from the followfng Individuals letter is to request that you forwardby certf.fiedmail all aleroscopic slides, paraff%n t%ssue blocks, and tissues preserved In fixative, together with copies of pathology reports, groes photographs pertaining to these If there is so- other Xndividuel In your address this request, kindly let me know. institution to whom I should Marshall Island Study Program..