65 DR. BUGHER: A If one divides the prognostic problem into the immediate and ultimate prognosis, I think the immediate problem has already given its ow answer. The fact that except for two people who are still in the hospital -- old people, -- and ormwoman ready to deliver, all of the Rongelap people went happily off to their new location. There are no ill effects so far as the immediate situation is concerned. So that the immediate prognosis time has already given the answer to that. Alderson Reporting Company Washington, D. C. 10 The ultimate long term prognosis problem I think 11 would concern itself with two broad aspects. 12 internal emitter question, 13 which bears on what you werespeaking of, 14 the possibly very much delayed skin neoplasia which would 15 not be expected, 16 or maybe more, 17 particularly in the skeleton, if it appears at all. Have you any opinions on thase? in your own mind 19 next 25 years or so? LT, and the other is I should think, to appear in less than 15 ye Ar 18 20 One of the What do you think is likely to occur to these people in the LOONEY: The thing that we have noted as far 21 as the relationship of radio element deposition to the 22 formation of neoplasia from radium patients was this, that 23 in most all of these characteristic of thehistological 24 findings was the formation of an atypicalosseous: tissue, whih ARC was a bone formatim, and this was not usual in the areas