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MR. HARRIS:

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se have done some work in the last

few years on mice given single doses of radiation extending

from 12-1/2 roentgens on up to 5 and 6 hundred, and those
mice were kept and examined periodically for a priod of tw
years.

We have done this with x-rays as a control for

neutron experimentation.

We are in the process of pulling it

all together at the present time.

In my recollection of the

last time I looked at this data to try to pull something out

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of it, the formation of not true cataracts, but

detectable

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lens aberrations in the region of the posterior pull of the

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lens probably in most cases is non-vision disturbing if we

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knew what was vison disturbing in mice.

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There is a definite correlation with the formation

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of

these opacities, and the dose that the animals had.

To

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the best of my recollection this correlation with opacity

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is better, and the incidence of opacity formation is higher

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than is the incidence of leukemia in animals.

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might be reasonable to continue some studies on these

Therefore, it

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people for the detection of these lens aberrations and even

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before you would think of looking for leukemia.

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As far as leukemia in the animals was concerned,
it is going to be awfully difficult to analyze statistically

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because/a fair leukemia incidence in the normal population
of this mouse,

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waive Pde

I do remember that there is a shift in incidence of leukemia
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