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
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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

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