ALS OS ow . 3 * .A-28 ra tha it 7, Rh r got choy Bet ‘ pei s . ta deeb ows ; oe Sd s* eA oie ee te MaBee. : ” : ae ‘THE SUNDAY STAR-BULLETIN & ADVERTISER: _November:%, 1665 Marshall Islanders Showing Thyroid ‘Washington Post Service Special To The Advertiser is the kind of fallout, such as radioactive jodine,‘that occurs mostly near an atomic blast and gets into the human, WASHINGTON—A significant number of Marshall Is- _ body.through food and drink- landersare only. now—Il years later—heginning to ‘show thyroid gland damage after being accidentally drenched Moreover, said Dr. Robert Conrad iina telephone ij nter- ‘with radioactive fallout from an American ‘H-bomb test -in the Pacific. View, there is some evidence that fallout damage to the thyroid gland might also be the cause of an observed. parece among some of‘thechildren exposed to the fall. : Thefinding oflatent damage, ‘a according ‘to ‘the gov- _ ou ernment doctor in charge of peanng the islanders for thyConrad is tlie. leader of’a medical survey team.’‘that: . ats ‘roid cance ipsen oa cd expe:ertypow seaan in- aul eeoe EineSeta Sak between Brookhaven National Laboratory on‘ creased hazaty ire B a zeaeRyme : nee saaRatt yaeetwin the Marshalls. The eps Fe ae Cel a dgRE Pe toed Damage--Result of °54 H-Bomb tumors. But at least one has turned out to be a cancer of the thyroid gland. Significantly, in a control: group of Rongelap natives team’s most recent report to the Atomic Energy Com- ‘Mission is being circulated this week to membersof the ‘Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy. . Whatthese reports show is this: Between March and October of this year, 10 new cases of thyroid abnormalities have been found among ‘who escaped the 1954 fallout—including some near rela- the 82 Rongelap natives who were exposed to fallout tives of those not as lucky—there has been no evidence of thyroid disease. Six of the thyroid victims have undergone successful operations. Three, with benign tumors, underwent sur- geryat the U.S._Naval Hospital onn Guam in 1964, Three “wetvee with a cancerous. Wir etien 's 7 cate f the Lahey Clinic © as at Brookhaven. Be in the first week of March, 1954. This brings to 18, the total numbe _ Show thyroidgia ie ;a ) “Most of e ; REPOSITORY poeL.lyASO COLLECTION DokLi BOX No fas, Enon #3" FOLDER- Bio~ MED Dr Lonowed “da Vine ye “yy a,x4 oso