TITLE Medical Studies of the People BUOGET AND REPORTING CODE of the Marshall Islands Accidentally Exposed to Faliout DATE PREPARED HA~O2-01-01 03/31/81 »* CONTRACTOR NAME CODE Associaied Universities, inc, 20. e. BNL Detail Attachments. Approach. WP NUMBER TASK NO. * REV. NO. 0 cont. cont. Management Controls Fiscal control will be exercised in the form of monthly comparisons, over the task term, of actual costs incurred against corresponding line items of the budget. Technical results shall be monitored through a periodic review, by the Contractor Task Manager, of accomplishments by measuring actual performance as compared to expected progress. Ail work shall be conducted in conformance with generally accepted standards for R&D and other investigative or analytic procedures, as observed by universities and large independent research facilities including Brookhaven National Laboratory. f. Technical Progress. Technical Progress in FY 1980. In FY'80 there were two surveys: a September—October 1979 and a May-June 1980. The first survey was primarily pediatric with consideration of those adults not seen in last survey, parasitologic, and dental examinations. The May-June survey considered adult exposed and non-exposed persons with emphasis on hematology and endocrinology. During FY'80 6 patients were transported to BNL for general workup and thence to Cleveland for thyroid surgery. Ome patient had adencopapillary carcinoma and the others benign lesions. Dental, ophthalmologic, and parasitologic studies were continued. The incidence of spontaneous thyroid tumors in the unexposed Marshallese 1s still not known with any degree of certainty and, until this is established, the Significance of the thyroid tumors seen in the Utirik population remains uncer~ tain, , SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER Pediatric Exams Pediatric Sick Cail Adult Exams Adult Sick 1979 - MARSHALL ISLAND EXAMS - Call M E R U Total 53 34 49 1 18 7 25 - 45 17 1 154 43 53 5 11 43 & 4 33 19 19 27 66 112 lll 73 180 482 9 Diabetic Sampling Thyroid, Lab, X Ray 13 o Dental 16 | 3 - TOTAL 118 3 68 HA-oa— JA TT