TABLE 2: THYROID SURGERIES, 1985-1987
Identification
Number & Group
Age at
Diagnosis
67 - Rongelap
$22 - Comparison
Sex
_
Year of
Surgery
45
F
1985
Papillary follicular carcinoma
pius occult papillary carcinoma
41
M
1985
Normal
|
Consensus Diagnosis*
2172 - Utirik
45
F
1985
Follicular adenoma
2172 - Utirik
34
F
1985
Occult papillary carcinoma
2225 - Utirik
39
F
1985
Adenomatous nodule
2251 - Utirik
37
F
1986
Follicular adenoma plus occult
papillary carcinoma
* Majority diagnoses, based on interpretations bv: Dr. L.V. Ackerman. Health Sciences Center. SUNY. Stony
Brook. NY: Dr. W.A. Meissner, formeriv with New England Deaconess Hospital. Boston. MA: Dr. A.L. Vickery,
Massachusetts Generali Hospital. Boston. MA: Dr. L.B. Wooiner. Mavo Clinic. Rochester. MN.
TABLE 3: THYROID NODULES DIAGNOSED AT
SURGERY THROUGH 1987
-Adenomatous
noduies
Rongelap (67)*
Ailingnae (19)"
Utink (167)*
Comparison (227)**
Adenomas
Papillary
cancers
2
3
11
4
4
4
]
>
17
.
Follicular
cancers
Occult
cancers
]
1
4
1***
oo
5
Jeeves
NOT INCLUDEDarethe following unoperated (and therefore unconfirmed) nodules: Rongelap — |: Ailingnae
— 1: Utirik — 1, Comparison — 5.
INCLUDEDareail consensusdiagnosesof a panel of consultant pathologists: two different lesions were detected
in one person from Rongelap, one from Ailingnae, and two from Utirik.
.* Numberof persons (including those in utero) who were originally exposed.
** This numberincludes all persons who have been in the Comparison group since 1957 (see page 18).Some
have not been seen for many years: others were added as recentiv as 1976.
*** Equally divided opinion in one case; follicular carcinoma vs. atypical adenoma.
‘*** Majority opinion in one case; occult papillary carcinoma \s. follicular carcinoma. The same patient had
lymphocytic thyroiditis.
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