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... program of the Defense Nuclear Agency.' A validation study by MFUA examining other sources of information regarding participant status found that the final roster captured between 93 and 99 percent of the military personnel who participated in Operation CROSSROADS. The mortality data gathered from Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
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... Navy mortality due to all malignancies and leukemia did not vary substantially among our exposure surrogate groups (i.e., those who boarded target ships after a detonation vs. those who did not, and those enlisted personnel who had an Engineering & Hull occupational specialty vs.
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... These findings do not support a hypothesis that exposure to ionizing radiation was the cause of increased mortality among CROSSROADS participants. Had radiation been a significant contributor to increased risk of mortality' we should have seen significantly increased mortality due to malignancies, particularly leukemia, in participants thought to have received higher radiation doses relative to participants with lower doses and to unexposed controls.
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