 Winds routinely carried the fallout of these tests directly through the St. George and southern Utah area.Marked increases in the frequency of cancer in the population, not limited to leukemia, lymphoma, thyroid cancer, breast cancer, melanoma, bone cancer, brain tumors, and gastrointestinal tract cancers, were reported from the mid-1950s until the early 1980s.It is believed that much of the cast and crew of "The Conqueror" contracted cancer because of this.