4. Young people operated on for thyroid disease during August 1969 and recovered, Diagnoses: Primary — benign adenomatous goiter in two and papillary adenoma of serious grade malignancy in one. 3 (16%) (None of six Ailinginae children exposed to an estimated external dose of 70 rads have shown thyroid dysfunction.) II. (Estimated dose: Surviving adult Rongelapese exposed to fallout. 175 rads external plus 160 rem internal irradiation.) Total - 34 III. 1. Papillary carcinoma removed surgically at age 41. No recurrence. Taking oral thyroid hormone therapy, 1 2. Small nodule at age 40 which disappeared under oral thyroid hormone therapy. 1 3. This patient operated on in 1969 for removal of an invasive adenoma; has recovered satisfactorily. 1 Surviving adult Ailinginae people exposed to fallout. -(Estimated dose: 70 rads external gamma irradiation.) Total - 8 1, LV. Adenomatous goiter removed at age 45; recovered and was on thyroid therapy. Died of influenza in 1968, 1 (Estimated Surviving adult Utirik people exposed to fallout. dose: 14 rads external gamma plus 15 rem internal irradiation.) Total ~-120 1. One person developed a nodular thyroid gland and underwent surgery in 1969. As the tissue resembled a follicular adenoma in frozen section, a total thyroidectomy was performed; histologic sections confirmed the diagnosis and upgraded the degree of malignancy, satisfactorily. ES She has recovered poE ARCHIV :