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MEMORMDUM FOR CHAIRMAN SRABORG NARSHALLESE EXFOSED TO FALLOUT FROM THE BIKINI TEST OF The following updaees the information on this subject with respect to our last memorandum dated May 4, i966 (COPY attached]. The five cases mentioned cm page 2, paragraph 2, wexe brought from Rmgelap to Brooklmven during the latter half of May and admitted to the Medical Department on May 26, 1966. After thorough evaluation they were transferred to the New England Deaconess Hospital, Boston, for subtotal thyroidectomies. Fo].iowing operatfon, they were returned CO Brookhaven on June 11, discharged from Br-ooknaven on June 16, and 4.11withstood surgery eaeily .md nave exhibited no complications except the expected hy’pothyroidic state which is to be treated by daily or=l administration of appropriate thyroid hormone. Ail the patients were females with present eges of 46, 20, 15, i3, and 13, or respective ages of 34, fl,3, 1, a.nii1 years aL time of exposure. P1l showed adenomatous goiters with nodules verying from one large single nodule to multiple small ones; one patient had a small nodule
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to be wieheut new medical problm. ~~e nodml*@ in the thyroids of the remainin~ patients seem to be ~mcroll~bl~ by the admfnistratim of thyroid hormone. Decisicma segard%~ pow?ible surgery for them and furtbex medical regi&ks me baa dafer=d until the next annual survey of the Marshallese next Division of Biology and Medicine