Table 3. Mortality Among Rongelap and Utirik People (as of 1980). (Possible causes comprise diseases noted in the medical records which might be etiologically related to death. AE = Ailinginae exposed. NC = not confirmed by biopsy or autopsy.) Year A. Subject No. & sex Age Possible causes Rongelap exposed 1956 1957 1958 1959 1962 1962 1962 1962 1963 1963 1964 1965 1966 1966 1966 25 38 31 62 30 46 26 56 52 57 43 28 29 55 13 1972 1972 54 M 60 F 19 74 1974 68 M 64 Cancer, 1977 1980 58 F 82 M 82 75 ? Liver disease ASHD 1968 1971 M M M F F M M F F F F F M M F - AE - AE - AE - AE 59 F - AE 50 M ~ AE 46 78 35 60 60 84 21 75 55 107 77 79 77 88 71 Heart disease Heart disease, diabetes Acute varicella Ovarian cancer Cancer of cervix - NC Heart disease Accident Accident Poliomyelitis, bulbar "Old age" (7) Pneumonia, heart disease Heart disease Asthma, heart failure Heart disease Cancer of uterus ~ NC 58 51 Influenza-pneumonia Acute asphyxiation, cause unknown Acute myelogenous leukemia Heart disease stomach B. Utirik exposed 1956 1957 1957 2118 M 2219 F 2222 F 24 57 63 ? ? ? 1959 1959 1959 2122 M 2127 M 2170 M 87 73 46 ? CVA ? ? 1960 2116 F 27 ? 1958 1959 1960 1960 2243 M 2187 F 2131 F 2180 M 50 Drowning 61 Pulmonary bronchiectasis, chronic 35 76 bronchitis ? Asthmatic (?) - 13-