TABLE 8: DISTRIBUTION OF POSSIBLE CANCER DEATHS
ACCORDING TO YEARS OF RESIDENCE ON RONGELAP
Years on
Rongelap
A. COMPARISON GROUP
Number of
Persons
0-4
5-9
10-14
15-19
135
40
20
13
20-24
10
25-28
9
227
Total
B. RONGELAP EXPOSED
0-4
5-9
Possible Cancer
Deaths
7
0
0
“O
]
0
8 (13% of recorded deaths)
8
10
0
0
10-14
12
]
15-19
20-24
25-28
13
30
10
83
0
3
1
5 (19% of recorded deaths)
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TABLE 9: COMPARISON AND EXPOSED GROUP
— CANCER DEATHS
Group
A. Comparison
No. in
Group
Total
Deaths
227
63"
Cancer
Deaths
Age at
Death
8
28-68
A.1 Resident on Rongelap only
during ‘57-61
42
12
;
4
55-68
A.2 Resident in °57-’61 and for
some time thereafter
109
32
2
51,63
A.3 Resident only after ’57-’61
47
5
]
50
A.4 Never on Rongelap
29
13
]
28
B. Exposed in 1954
86
26**
5
B.1 Like Al
8
3
]
60
20)
4
19-71
B.2 Like A.2
73 -
B.3 Like A.3
l
0
B.4 Like A4
}
0
* One death occurred five months after return to Rongelap.
** Three deaths occurred prior to return to Rongelap in 1957.
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