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EXPOSED TO FALLOUT FRCf TEE F?@XH 1, 1954 TEST ON BIKINX Ihrsh=llesc dUiiIlg i>rch 1970, reports no new serious cases of thyroid di$ccse cozs this population. The five Karehallese who underwent s’dz~ezyat the Cleveland Hetropolita General Hospital last August wzre in good condition. they were 1 to 8 ye=s of Gzeo (Estinated dose: 175 rads cxzerzal g~ plus 600 to 14C0 rem internal irradiation.) Currently norc:l by clinical and biochecicel tests. 2 (112) Responding sztf.sfsctorily to oral thyroid hormoae beccuse of no?ulzz thyroid disease; histologic “ diayosis of adexzztGus goiter snd Huerthle cell kcrccne thercpy with ona exception: This patient regkm, there is question as to whether she should
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4. Young people operated on for thyroid di~ease during Jdgust 1969 and recovered. Diagnoses: pr~av beaiQm-adencaatous goiter in two and papillary edenoaa of serious ~raclecalijyzncy in one. 3 (16%) (None of cix P.ilin~inaechfldrcn exposed to an estimated external tioseof 70 reds hzve chown thyroid dysfunction.) u l Survivin8 adult lbagel~pese exposed to fallouta (Estimated dose: 175 rads =~ternal plus 160 rerainternal irradiation.) 1. Papillary..carcinr-a recoved surgically at age 41. NO recurrence. Tdcing oral thyroid horaone therapy. 1 2. Saall nodule ac &ga 40 which disappeared under oral thyroid hornone therapy. 1 3. Yais pztlezt o?erzted cm in 1969 for r-oval of an Invzsive zdezczx; has recovered .=tisfactorily. 1 1S1. Scrviving adult AilinGinee people exposed to fsllout. Ga thyroid therapy. Died of influenza in 1968. c?~zted tbe degzee of nal&ncncy. She has recovered
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No ncw cases of nodular thyroids were found during a visit to Utirik, nor were nodular thyroids found in controls cm Likiep “ and Kwajalein Atolls. thyroid hormone supplicant on a re=~lar routine schedule. To suznacize, all but 2 of 19 children exposed on lloit~elaphave now exhibited thyroid dysftinctiones have a smaller but signific=t number of cdults. Statistics on the frequency of thyroid cenccr in Kicioaesians do not seen to be available; the figures for 25 countries around tha world range frcm 0.25 (Japanese =ales) to Dr. Ccimrd elso visited Bikini to collect urine s=ples from the 25 Bikini mn temporarily the=e wozking to rehabilitate the island; cocatin~ of the ?o?ulation before they return frcm fili to Bikini. by Brookhzven Natiozal Uboratory.