TABLE 8: DISTRIBUTION OF POSSIBLE CANCER DEATHS
ACCORDING TO YEARS OF RESIDENCE ON RONGELAP
Years on
Rongeiap
Number of
Persons
Possible Cancer
Deaths
A. COMPARISON GROUP
ed}
135
7
5-9
40
(0)
10-14
20
Q
15-19
20-24
25-28
13
10
9
227
Total
B. RONGELAP EXPOSED
0
i
Q
8 (13. of recorded deaths)
hd
8
0)
5-9
10
1)
10-14
15-19
20-24
25-28
12
Total
]
13
30
10
83
(}
3
l
5 (19%. of recorded deaths)
TABLE 9: COMPARISON AND EXPOSED GROUP
— CANCER DEATHS
No. in
Group
Group
A. Comparison
A.1 Resident on Rongelap only
during ‘57-61
A2 Residentin '57-'61 and for
Total
Deaths
227
Cancer
Deaths
Age at
Death
53°
8
28-68
42
12
4
55-68
some time thereafter
109
32
2
51,63
A.3 Resident only after ‘57-61
47
5
l
50
A.4 Never on Rongelap
29
13
}
2g
86
B. Exposed in 1954
26°"
)
B.1 Like A.1l
8
3
1
60
B.2 Like A.2
73
20
4
19-71
B.3 Like A.3
l
0
0
B.4 Like A4
l
0
0
* One death occurred five months after return to Rongelap.
‘* Three deaths occurred prior to return to Rongelap in 1957.
SO0nI20
%0