ba: 4 Lekoj "was found to be healthy." However, during this survey he was taken into Majuro with the team because of the low cell count and there another blood test was given. Rongelap. This second one showed the count even lower than it had been on Arrangements were then made to take him to Tripler Army Hospital in Honolulu, where attempts to get a “successful bone marrow examination" failed and "we decided to take him back to Brookhaven National Laboratory," according to Dr. Conard. There the diagnosis of acute myelogenous leukemia was determined after which arrangements were made to have Lekoj treated at the National Cancer Institute, Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, where he was taken on October 3, 15, 1972, 1972, There, on the thirteenth floor of Building No. Ten, on November 18 years and seven months after his exposure, Lekoj Anjain died of pneumonia during "attempts to induce remission of his leukemia," according to a BNL release of the following day. This is the first such case of this type of blood cancer to appear in any of the Marshallese or Japanese exposed to "Bravo's" fallout. Whether it is a single incident, related or unrelated to exposure to tonizing radiation from fallout, cannot be stated for certain. Future findings, or the lack of such, will undoubtedly be the determining factor. Needless to say, because of the higher incidence of leukemia in Japanese exposed to atomic bombs, the situation bears watching with the most careful attention. Miscellaneous Considerations Since the inception and carrying out of the regular annual surveys of the ee Rongelapese and biannual and triannual surveys of the Utirik people, certain difficulties connected with the examinations have been noted in the BNL reports. 117