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NCI Study of the Cancer Risks from the Trinity Nuclear Test

Contact Person:

Emily Haozous

University of New Mexico

College of Nursing

Albuquerque, NM

(505) 272- 8568

ehaozous@salud.unm.edu

• Better understanding of diet and way of life in New Mexico tribal and other communities in the 1940s.

• Improved estimates of radiation exposure and cancer risk for those alive at the time of the nuclear test in all ethnic groups.

• Gift card to honor community members who participate in the interviews.

• Reach out to communities to help identify those who were alive in 1945 and living in New Mexico.

• Conduct group and individual interviews with community members now 70 years of age and older to gather detailed information on typical ways of life.

• Analyze individual and group interview data to develop a good description of typical diet and lifestyle in 1945.

• Estimate radiation exposures for typical persons in all ethnic and age groups in New Mexico from the Trinity nuclear test.

• Estimate the number of cancers likely to have occurred in the New Mexico population as a consequence of exposure to fallout from Trinity.

The National Cancer Institute is conducting a study to estimate the

Radiation dose and the cancer risks to the New Mexico population from

the Trinity nuclear test in 1945.

To make this assessment, scientists need a good understanding of the diet,

activities and way of life of Native Americans, Latinos, and other ethnic

groups living in New Mexico at the time.

Scientists will conduct interviews of groups and individual people in tribal and other communities living at the time of the test to gather information about lifestyles and diet in 1945.

NCI will share results from this study with the people of New Mexico via the media and tribal and community newsletters.

Purpose of NCI Trinity Study

Study Activities

Why estimate exposure?

• People living in New Mexico at the time of the Trinity test were exposed to different levels of radiation depending on where they lived and the kinds of food they ate.

• People who were exposed to radiation from the Trinity test in 1945 could face higher cancer risk.

• Scientists estimate radiation exposure as a preliminary step to estimating the number of cancers that might have occurred from exposures.

• Accurate estimates of radiation exposure cannot yet be made because of lack of information on diets and ways of life in the 1940s.

benefits of participation