— f — ( -3The exposed Rongelap people have been treated with thyroid hormone for the past 10 years and this treatment has successfully maintained normal thyroid status in the affected people and enhanced growth and development in retarded children. In 1972 a 19 year old Rongelap man who had been exposed at one year of age died of acute leukemia in spite of the extensive treatment at the Clinical Center of the NationalGeseoninatiecte, The illness may have been induced by radiation. The annual medical examinations of the exposed Marshallese people continue with a team of highly qualified medical specialists. In addi- tion we now have a resident physician stationed in the Marshall Islands who makes at leant quarterly visite for health care to the cxposed people on the outer islands. DOE ARCHIVES 2?