PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED
published in 1962.
At that cime the total nunber of puncture
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wounds in man was less than 1,000°°.
wounds was @xcision so that the
The treatment of such
total number of wounds dis-
playing residual contamination by plutonium particles was
certainly less than 1,000.
Therelcre, this wound data wouid
Suggest that insoluble plutonium particles could offer a risk
of cancer induction in man that is even greater than 1/1000
per particle.
is
yin other words, when a critical unit of tissue
irradiated, man may be more susceptible to cancer‘than the
Albert data as analyzed by Geesaman would suggest.
A second case of plutonium particle induced cancer is
that of
.
y
He was
andustry but was
not
associated with
a freight handler who unloaded,
rotated and reloaded a crate that was contaminated by the
leaking carboy of Pu-239 solution which it contained.
He
subsequently develoved an infiltrating soft tissue sarcoma
on the left palm which eventually resulted in his death.
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ALtnouch
this
case
is
rot as
clear
rut
3s
the
case
of
the
plutonium worker, there is an overwhelming medical probabilit
Fm me ee ee
that his cancer was
induced by pvlutonium.
unfortunate contact with Pu-239
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Vanderbeck, J.W.,
lead to a lawsuit,
"Plutonium in Puncture Wounds,"
Hanford Laboratories Operation, July 25,
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