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BUGHER:

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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.

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The ultimate long term prognosis problem I

think

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would concern itself with two broad aspects.

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internal emitter question,

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which bears on what you werespeaking of,

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the possibly very much delayed skin neoplasia which would

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not be expected,

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or maybe more,

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particularly in the skeleton,

if it appears at all.

Have you any opinions on thase?
in your own mind

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next 25 years or so?
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and the other is

I should think, to appear in less than 15 ye Ar

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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

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as the relationship of radio element deposition to the

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formation of neoplasia from radium patients was this, that

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in most all of these characteristic of thehistological

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findings was the formation of an atypicalosseous: tissue, whih

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was a bone formatim, and this was not usual in the areas

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