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Review Article

Cancer clusters in the USA: What do the last twenty years of state and federal investigations tell us?

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Pages 474-490 | Received 04 Jan 2012, Accepted 09 Mar 2012, Published online: 21 Apr 2012

Figures & data

Table 1.  Summary of cancer cluster investigations by state.

Figure 1.  Numbers of publicly available cancer cluster investigation reports by state and comparison of numbers of investigated cancer clusters, confirmed cancer clusters (e.g. investigated clusters where number of cancer cases is greater than expected), clusters linked to an environmental exposure, and cancer clusters with an established cause. Although some of the cluster investigations may have been described in several reports, the numbers in this figure represent unique reported clusters. (Map generated from data in using Map-Maker Utility, http://monarch.tamu.edu/~maps2/us_12.htm)

Figure 1.  Numbers of publicly available cancer cluster investigation reports by state and comparison of numbers of investigated cancer clusters, confirmed cancer clusters (e.g. investigated clusters where number of cancer cases is greater than expected), clusters linked to an environmental exposure, and cancer clusters with an established cause. Although some of the cluster investigations may have been described in several reports, the numbers in this figure represent unique reported clusters. (Map generated from data in Table 1 using Map-Maker Utility, http://monarch.tamu.edu/~maps2/us_12.htm)

Table 2.  Summary of exposures hypothesized to be linked to three most commonly perceived cancer clusters.

Table 3.  Summary of cancers hypothesized to be linked to three most common community-identified chemicals.

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