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
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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)

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8

0)

5-9

10

1)

10-14

15-19
20-24
25-28

12

Total

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13
30
10
83

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3
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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

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86

B. Exposed in 1954

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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.

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