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Title:
LETTER TO J ROBERTSON, SUBJECT: PRELIMINARY RESPONSE TO YOUR INQUIRY OF CASE 40-003 ( REDACTED )
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Subject Terms:
HREX; AMERICIUM; INQUIRIES; NEOPLASM; PLUTONIUM; PLUTONIUM INJECTION EXPERIMENT
Document Location:
Location - DOE/NNSA NUCLEAR TESTING ARCHIVE Address - P.O. Box 98521 City - Las Vegas State - NV Zip - 89193-8521 Phone - (702)794-5106 Fax - (702)862-4240 Email - NTA@NV.DOE.GOV
Document Type:
CORRESPONDENCE, LETTERS, MEMOS
Publication Date:
1986 Oct 29
Declassification Status:
Never classified
Document Pages:
0001
Accession Number:
NV0700548
OpenNet Entry Date:
1994 Aug 27
OpenNet Modified Date:
2017 Dec 21
Description/Abstract:
MEMO TO JAMES ROBERTSON OF HUMAN HEALTH AND ASSESSMENTS DIVISION DATED OCTOBER 29, 1986 FROM JAMES H. STEBBINGS, S. D. EPIDEMIOLOGY GROUP LEADER. DISCUSSION OF CASE 40-003 BEING THE ONLY SURVIVOR OF 19 PU/AM INJECTION CASES. INJECTION WSA RECEIVED AT BERKELEY, HAD A BONE SARCOMA. CONTINUES TO HAVE COMPLAINTS COMMON TO HIS AGE (HYPERTENSION, ARTHRITIS), NOTHING WHICH WOULD BE ASCRIBED TO PLUTONIUM. JAMES H. STEBBINGS, S. D. SENT LETTER TO CASE AND WIFE FOR INDICATION OF WILLINGNESS (OR NOT) TO BE IDENTIFIED. PROMPT REPLY WAS NOT ANTICIPATED AS THEY NEED TO DISCUSS THIS WITH THEIR CHILDREN WHO LIVE SOME DISTANCE AWAY. DISCUSSED ANOTHER CASE INJECTED AT AGE 5 YEARS, IN CALIFORNIA. OSTEOGENIC SARCOMA (LETHAL IN 1947 IN AUSTRALIA: NOT A U. S. CITIZEN); "ONE WONDERS IF THEY WERN'T HOPING FOR SOME CURES." AMERICIUM CASE (OUR 30-032), WAS ALSO A CALIFORNIA OSTEOGENIC SARCOMA CASE, DIED IN 1948.