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THROUGH GENEML MANAGER ANNUAL MEDICAL SURVEY OF THE M2WS HALLESE TO FALLOUT IN 1954 The subject survey carried out detection of two more cases of exposed to fallout on Ron~ela~ during March 1968 resulted in the thyroid nodules in children who were when they were less than ten vears of-. age. This brings the total number of cases of thyroid abnormalities in the 67 living Rongelapese to 21; of the 19 children in the more heavily exposed group who were less than 10 years of age at time of exposure, 17, or 90%, have developed thyroid abnormalities. It was decided that 4 cases should be brought to the Brookhaven National Laboratory for complete inedicai evaluation and, if necessary, surgery, Preparations for their transportation and reception are now taking place. Three are people having thyroid nodules which had Got responded to thyroid hormone therapy. The fourth is a 29-yezr-old woman with an unidentified tumor in the neck lateral to the gland. In the past, 11 Marshallese have undergone surgery; one woman exposed as an adult was found to have cancer of the thyroid, while 10 who were exposed when less than 10 years of age had benign adenomatous goiters. The incidence of thyroid problems in this population is tabulated on the attached sheet. Attachment: Ccag. Rel. (2) in the Marshallese Populations as of .+(X33
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Con Lrol Marshal lese ~0 llarshallese Populations as of March 1968 Vllole Body Cnmma Estimated Added Thyroid No. and Percent ‘.’; Estimates of the doses to the- thyroids of the Rongelapese were recomputed by R. James and J. Gofman, UCRL #122730 December, 1964. Estimates of the thyroid doses of L-heAilingnae and Utirik people were by proportionality to the ,:espective whole body gamma dosese