the multitude of radioisotopes to
which people have been exposed.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commis-

sion’s memorandum on casualties
expected from worldwide fallout
should lead us to anticipate greater
effects in local populations exposed to

much higher concentrations of radio-

nuclides from fallout in the environment. Mormon populations in southwestern Utah and adjacent parts of
Arizona and Nevada have certain
statistical advantages for such inves-

tigations, because the cancer inci-

dence data there may be compared
with that for all Mormons in Utah,
permitting comparisons of cancer
incidence free from some of the variables that must be dealt with elsewhere. Allowance should be made for
eancer induced by fallout for all Utah

Mormons (although less than in

southwestern Utah). A burden of
radiation-induced cancer throughout
the state can be expected, because an

excess of childhood leukemia has been

reported for the entire state, and this
observation is an early warning of
other classes of radiation-induced
cancer to appear later.
This study was supported by a grant from the
Nuclear Rediation Research Foundation.
The survey received valuable support from
manycitizens in the high-fallout area; Philip H.
Williams, MS, trained and coordinated the persons carrying out the survey; Bruce Ellis, MS,
assisted with statistical tests; Frederick A.

Johnson assisted with the dats; Kathryn Van

Deusen, MA, and Mina F. Coffey helped prepare
the manuscript.

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