LOMORANDUM FOR: Constr STARONS
COMLISSIONER PALFREY
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TenocvoGe GENERAL MAMASER
SUBIICT:
THYROID DISEASE IN RONSELAP ISLANSIA
During the week of July 5, 1955, the three rnongelapese vno vere
brought to this country
for study at Brochhaven
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bopolvatory ware operated on et the Leno
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vill sveecell thet thyroid tumors vere no
excrinction of those exposed to fallout
Tne two teen-acse boys were found to heve each a solitary benign
tumor of the thyroid. These nodules ware venoaved surgiccily.
Tne micdle-cged woran wes found to hava a carcinoma of the
thyroid slend with som2 metastcses to local strectures. A subtotal thyroidectomy ws3 cavried out. In har casa, the prognosis
is feir. She will be given 25 :nillicuries of Todine-131
therapeutically to destroy persisting thyroid tissue.
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It is interesting that the ccse of recioioliine to the thyroid
glend in the cese of the wocen is estinatel eat about 160 rads,
or epproxicetely one-tenth thet to the clec:cs of the youths.
Presently uncer conci¢ereticn is theacrinistiration of Cecciccted
thyroid tablets prophylectically to cll th2 Ronselepese who were
ac Roarelep or Alincince at tke time of gellout.,
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