ee ee a . a _ ee ——— ee - hahha Sk ASS LS os s rope a US- DOE ARCHIVES RG 326 U.S. ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION | Collection E C-SEnponc | Box £4 Folder Otm 2-Div. oF Biocney + July 12, 1965 N\epicip a - SerenDecif65 MEMORANDUM FOR: ¢ CHATRUAN STABORS 3038 COSESSIONERPAL PALPREY COMSSTONZR RACY COrhASS LONER TAPE PTA ACTATT TERCUGH v: ; GENERAL MANAGER SUDSEC?: TEYROID DISEASE IN RONCELAP ISLANDERS Dering the week of July 5, 1955, the three Ronzelasese who were tf wroucht to this ccuntry for study at Drockheven Naational Loborctory were operated on et the Ushey Clinic, Boston. You ULE all thee thyroid tumors were noted at the 1965 madical tvs on of those exposed to fallout in Merch 1954 from the ie two teen-age boys were found to have each a solitary benign caer 62 the thyroid. These nodules were removed surgically. tac micd le-azed woman was found to have a carcinoma of the thyroid glend with some metastases to Iccal structures. A subdtctel thyroidectomy was carried cut. In her case, the prognosis . a Ske will be given 20 millicuries of Lodine-131 thezepeu tically to deStroy persisting thyroid tissve, -2> Lalit. © is in teresting that the dose of radioiodine to the thyroid, the cease of the women is estirccted at sbout 160 rads, cz spproximetely one-tenth that to the glends of the youths. slend in Presently uncer consideration is thescéminis tration of descicated _ thyroid tablets prephylecticelly to all the Roengelapese who were ct Ronge lzp or Alinginae at the time of fellout. ~ <r BEST COPY AVAILABLE Cherles L. Dunhsn, M.D. Director, Division of Biology and Medicine ce: Secretar iat (2) _ cx GUYBD ma | o: - = + L Mrlo5 6M BM DIRECTORwe AGM/RD DUNHAM: RMB | 7/12/65 me eee we “Dp4 MY ivy % CUR 08fe