UNITED STATES ATOMIC ENERGY COMIMIESSION WALHINGTON, OC. Clim wal Chairman. Seaborg Commissioner Ramey Commissioner Johnson Commissioner Thompson Commissioner Larson - . ‘ Ve ton d C 20545 oot tae Ta 4st ane ist9 BEST COPY AVAILABLE y “el Extiivs THRU: 4*General Manager CURRENT MEDICAL FINDINGS ON MARSHALLESE BROUGHT TO BROOKHAVEN i This is a follow-up of our memorandum of May 28, 1969, concerning _ the medical status of the Marshallese exposed to fallout on se Rongelap following the March 1, 1954, shot at Bikini Atoll. The four Rongelapese referred to in that memorandum received their pre-operative observation at the Medical Center of Brookhaven National Laboratory week before last and then transferred to the Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital for surgery by Dr. Brown Dobyns, ” , wea oo S. os Two of the three Rongelapese, who were less than ten years of age at the time of exposure to an estimated 175 rads of gemma and 600 to 1400 rem of internal beta radiation, were found to have the primary benign edénomatous goiter like that seen in most Rongelépese of this group, They were treated by subtotal thyroidectomy and ere recovering satisfactorily. Po The third Rongelap native, a girl now 21-22 years of age, was found to have 2 pepillary adenoma with invasion of the lynph nodes of the left side of the neck by neoplastic cells, Since the frozen sections and invasivcumess suggested a serious degree of malignancy - rzedcical dissection of the ieft side of the neck plus complete thyroicectomy were carried out, The patient is recovering with a minor degree of hypoparathyroicism, The fourth Rongelapese who wes exposed at the age of 22 years and hence is estimeted to have received only 160 rem of internal beta plus 175 rads of gamma radiation, was found to have an invasive adenoma which had involved the capsule of the thyroid gland, | RC Collection . Box___ . apes. itin : |PrFotder US DOE ARCHIVES 326 U.S. A TOMIC EN ERGY COMMISSION SEC r 12762. _ Be3dUk, 2- g yt eh op SE