PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED - B3 - camples collected subsecuent to January 20 gave negative results. The only thing that this demenstrates is that no detectable level of Pu-239 was jection of larae volumes muscle of animals, fractions, up to the Pu-239 70%, found. of Pu-239 remain Even following the in- solution into or feces (see skin and is slowly absorbed and appreciable at the site of injection. over, of the quantity absorbed only a small in the urine the page 3, Exhibit More- fraction avpears 3 and Exhibit 4). an case we are concerned with only a very small “olume of solution and hence we should not be surprised if we obtain negative results in an individual urine or feces sample. (See also Exhibit 5) The physical examination performed by Dr. Roy E. Albert on January 23, 1963, has no relevance. One would expect no overt signs of radiation injury at this early date from the small quantity of Pu-239 which is at issue here. We are concerned here with the long term effects, not the acute effects. The medical history of “navears to he accurate, as recorded by Dr. Wald newever, he omitted the conclusions of the Pathology Report of the Hospital for Special Surcery wherein the unanimous opinion of the pathologists was stated . to be that this lesion was a synovial sarcoma. The negative findings in the feces and urine in April of -°70 are of no more relevance than the similar findings in the January 1963 samples. The whole body counter has a detection limit’ of 0.3 u Ci of Pu-239. At issue here are quantities below 0.06 u Ci and, hence, well below ther detectable There are three reasons for setting aside findings in the initial tissue removed from limit. the neqative . First, since the pathologist report indicated "no evidence of atypical or malignant changes," it is quite possible that this mass was unrelated to the sarcoma, Recall here that the histology of the small nodule in Exhibit 2 showed severe changes that resembled precancerous changes. Third, the site of contamination was not necessarily removed with the mass or it could have trimmed from the mass prior to production of the paraffin blocks and Slides. Consider here that the nodule in Exhibit 2 was only 1/10 of a millimeter in diameter. developed an infiltrating soft Since tissue sarcoma, eventually and this original tissue removed showed no atypical change, there is no basis for PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED NAR AT re ST et oT Rai ORasmy wy. . wre Std Lo _ a Ug: we a wh,‘ ye ve ot a teh ae