TITLE
Medical Studies of the People
of the Marshall Islands Accidentally
Exposed to Fallout
CONTRACTOR NAME
e.
03/31/8)
WP NUMBER
TASK NO.
REV. NO.
BNL
Detail Attachments.
Approach.
DATE PREPARED
HA-02-01-01
CODE
Associcted Universities, inc.
20.
BUDGET AND REPORTING CODE
0
cont.
cont.
Management Controls
Fiscal control will be exercised in the form of monthly comparisons, over the
task term, of actual costs incurred against corresponding line items of the
budget.
Technical results shall be monitored through a periodic review, by the
Contractor Task Manager, of accomplishments by. measuring actual performance as
compared to expected progress.
All work shall be conducted in conformance with
generally accepted standards for R&D and other investigative or analytic proce-
dures, as observed by universities and large independent research facilities
including Brookhaven National Laboratory.
f.
Technical Progress.
Technical Progress in FY 1980.
In FY'80 there were two surveys: a September-October 1979 and a May-June
1980. The first survey was primarily pediatric with consideration of those adults
not seen in last survey, parasitologic, and dental examinations. The May-June survey considered adult exposed and non-exposed persons with emphasis on hematology
and endocrinology.
During FY'80 6 patients were transported to BNL for general
workup and thence to Cleveland for thyroid surgery.
Ome patient had
adenopapillary carcinoma and the others benign lesions.
Dental, ophthalmologic, and parasitologic studies were continued.
The incidence of spontaneous thyroid tumors in the unexposed Marshallese is
still not known with any degree of certainty and, until this is established, the
Significance of the thyroid tumors seen in the Utirik population remains uncertain.
SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER
1979 ~ MARSHALL ISLAND EXAMS
M
E
R
U
Total
Pediatric Exams
Pediatric Sick Call
53
-
49
l
7
25
45
17
154
43
Diabetic Sampling
Thyroid, Lab, X Ray
13
9
16.
3
=
3
4
4
33
19
Adult Exams
Adult Sick Call
34
9
Dental
18
5
-
TOTAL
118
11
i
43
53
68
19
27
66
112
Lll
73
180
482
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