Table One

Thyroid Data

Age

Group At
Exposure

No. with & E
Surgically gy §

Total
Proved
Number Nodules

.£
2 &

Expecte
Nodules’

Expecte
Cancers

Mean

Dose
Rads

Mean Years

C

At Risk,
(Cancers)

Nodule

D

Cancer

Risk,
Risk,
10-6rad-ly~! 10-6 rad ly-

Rongelap
In Utero

3

l

0

0.078

0.026

<10

19

14

1

0.49

0.17

10-18

li

2

1

0.84

>18

32

3

2

20 (-)

25

-

4000

13 (15)

14

0.73

0.14

1700

20 (22)

3.1

2.1

2.5

0.22

1300

17 (13)

‘0.71

3.3

65

20

4

3.9

0.56

2190

15 (16)

8.0

1.5

I

0

0

0.026

0.0087

610

- (-)

-

-

<10

7

2

)

0.18

0.0623

(-)

1]

-

10-18

-

~

~

~

-

- (-)

-

-

>18

11

3

0

0.93

0.077

410

17 (-)

27

-

All Ages

12

>

0

1.1

0.15

700

19 (-)

15

-

.

4

0

O.21

0.069

130

- (-)

-

-

<19

—

4

l

1.4

0.47

490

25 (21)

3.9

0.95

10-18

19

3

0

1.5

0.24

220

20 (-)

>18

24

e

l

6.7

9.59

170

23 (22)

3.9

1.3

All Ages

167

15

2

9.8

1.4

280

23 (21)

4.8

9.61

12

1

0

0.31

0.10

290

20 (-.)

9.9

-

<10

80

20

2

2.1

0.70

1400

16 (18)

10-18

30

5

2

2.1

0.38

760

20 (22)

5.9

1.2

>18

129

14

3

10

0.80

470

20 (16)

3.3

2.2

All Ages

251

40

6

15

2.1

780

18 (18)

7.1

L.l

All Ages

600

Ailingnae

In Utero

1100

=

22

Uririk

In Utero

18

-

All Exposed

In Utero

10

r

ATiere were two infants with atrophy of thyroid which were not counted,
B

‘Co 80.

C

Assumed to be time between March 1954 and time cf surgezy.

Pabsolute

Risk = No,

of excess

cases

due to

radiatior

x 10

mean thyroid dose x No. of subjects at risk x mean years at risk

0.65

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