67,
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biological variation,
individual people,

and I

think you have to watch these

and to see what percentage af

these

people develop tumors as compared to a controlled group.
DR. BUGHER:

Yes,

that will be done.

Do you have

any feeling yourself for the probabilities involved here in
this group?

Would you expect any bone sarcoma to be

encountered inthis Rongelap group?

We have 84 people, is it

not?
DR. BOND:

LT, LOONEY:

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I would certainly like to have a

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chance to go over this data much more than I have at the

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present time before I would

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on this.

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permissible level,

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to see if there is an increase in incident of neoplasia in

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this people.

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of these various elements.

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your bone tumors are the most likely thing to occur.

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would not want to hazard a guess.

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stick my neck out so to speak

But I do think that certainly with this close

I don't know too much about the distribution

MR. COHN:
brought out,

that these people are extremely important

Most of it is bone.

Chances are
I

There is one point that has not been

and that I think should bestressed,

is that

strontium 89 has a considerably shorter half life than radium
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but there are a number of short life fission products that
would have had to be present in high concentrations for an

early interval which we don't pick up after 30 days.

The

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