4 — a: " : . ~Eat BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY :‘ So yteey a , ATT: WI . e | \ ~_ ~~ ASSOCIATED UNIVERSITIES, INC. UPTON, Lu. WY. 11973 : . MEDICAL DEPARTMENT ‘ “sq crepey FOLETe TELEPHONE: (516) 345- 5577 . April 24, 1975 4 Congressmin Ataji rales : titiuge, Marshall Islands 96960 ¥ cB nar Ataii Dear Ataji, BY mt * Tne medical examinations of the Rongelay and Utirik peoonle vere successiully completed, We find it necessary to bring three rew thyroid oe i ae ay ay Oe : eases to the U.S. for further examinations and possible surgery; one in the Rongelap exposed g ¢ roup. and tivo in the Utivik enposed groun. There wera no other Vindings of significance (except one case refered to below) . s . " and the pecoles* health seemed generally sood. The three cancer cases eon novgelan were brougnt to Tripler for examinations ond we were plod thac aftar spacial thyro2 & examinations there was no evidence of cancer a ; e 4 _ Co - + 9 , Tecadining, . lliowever, a svall revion of the pituitary “pland. te o growth was discovered ia ‘ in the Since she wanted to be with ner daughter, for pirth of hex caild, we couid not carry out further examinations then But it is very imoortant taat she get specialized oneminations in the U.S, and she has agveed to retum-poasibly with the three thyroid oS " BEST COPY AVAILABLE ‘Gases. I mantion this to you to ask your help in case ske should nok ' Sully appreciate the importance of Surchexy examinacions. When ve brought thea these Ladies to Tripler there was a regretful delay ia cetcing them .a@dnitted to the hospicai, ft séens that a cevtain paper was not giv tO us for entrance into the U.S. and immigration held us um c long time and then da spite of careful preparations for adnission to the hosnital there was a dalay in gatcing them adinitted. IT was most sorry for tnis and know the ladies were rightfully upset, Ef was giad we had and Eroa Nongelap cn hand at the hospital to be vith tham a good blt of the cime. During cur visits to Utirik and Rongelap it was apparent that toners wos considerable confuslon about those cligiple for penefits of ae haw S-52,. At Utirtk che unexposed people thought that they should 7 entiticed to I.D, Cards ond at Rongeliao they wanted all the chitdcon 4 in- clued, The Jaw and the agreement between ERDA and . 7. states that only the people on cur cuaminatilon list (a copy of srhich is kept at Majuro) are entitled. This includes exposed Ronzelap and Utirik people ang the ssocial uncxposed Rongelan group of 150 people. Therefore, no. vnennosed Uticihk, only some of the unceuposed Rongelap and no children are included, We attemsted to explain this and also that: the unexposed Ronz2lap control group-was established many years ago (1957) and the . paonle on this List wero selected to match for age and sex people in the exposed Ronsgelap grous. This troun is considered quite adequate ~ for both exposed groups and it has not been considered necessary to have "une mosed Utivik people as controls, It should bo mentioned, hovever, thet all of those people have the benexit of general medical ¢ re at INFORMATION OPERATOR (S1G) 945-2123 S00%8e%5 | 0 PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED