PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED published in 1962. At that cime the total nunber of puncture 47 wounds in man was less than 1,000°°. wounds was @xcision so that the The treatment of such total number of wounds dis- playing residual contamination by plutonium particles was certainly less than 1,000. Therelcre, this wound data wouid Suggest that insoluble plutonium particles could offer a risk of cancer induction in man that is even greater than 1/1000 per particle. is yin other words, when a critical unit of tissue irradiated, man may be more susceptible to cancer‘than the Albert data as analyzed by Geesaman would suggest. A second case of plutonium particle induced cancer is that of . y He was andustry but was not associated with a freight handler who unloaded, rotated and reloaded a crate that was contaminated by the leaking carboy of Pu-239 solution which it contained. He subsequently develoved an infiltrating soft tissue sarcoma on the left palm which eventually resulted in his death. AQ ALtnouch this case is rot as clear rut 3s the case of the plutonium worker, there is an overwhelming medical probabilit Fm me ee ee that his cancer was induced by pvlutonium. unfortunate contact with Pu-239 47/ Vanderbeck, J.W., lead to a lawsuit, "Plutonium in Puncture Wounds," Hanford Laboratories Operation, July 25, PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED . - a 1960. . HW-661 _ TORTTSEE per tee Te wa Pat Pete's ot 4 “aks= 4h *. ts bere if‘ yin Sa ee eiaA . , . 4