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326 U.S. ATOMIC ENERGY
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July 12, 1965
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MEMORANDUM FOR: ¢ CHATRUAN STABORS
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COSESSIONERPAL
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TEYROID DISEASE IN RONCELAP ISLANDERS
Dering the week of July 5, 1955, the three Ronzelasese who were
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wroucht to this ccuntry for study at Drockheven Naational
Loborctory were operated on et the Ushey Clinic, Boston. You
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all thee thyroid tumors were noted at the 1965 madical
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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
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Ske will be given 20 millicuries of Lodine-131
thezepeu tically to deStroy persisting thyroid tissve,
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© 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.
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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.
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BEST COPY AVAILABLE
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Director, Division of
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