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This is a list of cancer clusters.
| North America
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| Date
| Disease
| Location
| Number
| Source
| Refs
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| 1917-1927
| Osteosarcoma
| New Jersey, Connecticut, Illinois
| 86
| Radium
| 1 2
|
| 1938-1971
| Adenocarcinoma
| U.S.A.
| 750
| diethylstilbestrol
| 3 4
|
| 1963-1999
| Lung cancer, Mesothelioma
| Libby, Montana
| 56
| vermiculite
| 5
|
| 1967-1973
| Liver angiosarcoma (Hemangiosarcoma)
| Louisville, Kentucky
| 4
| vinyl chloride monomer
| 6
|
| 1968-1995
| Leukemia, Lymphoma
| Camp Lejeune, North Carolina
| 103
| trichloroethylene
1,2-dichloroethylene
tetrachloroethylene
methylene chloride
vinyl chloride
| 7
|
| 1973-1982
| Brain, CNS cancer
| Cooke County, Texas
| 16-29
| Unknown
| 8
|
| 1979-1996
| Brain, CNS cancer
| Toms River, New Jersey
| 90
| SAN trimer
styrene
acrylonitrile
| 9 10 11
|
| 1981-1986
| Leukemia
| Woburn, Massachusetts
| 21
| Chloroform
Tetrachloroethylene
Trichloroethylene
1,2 Dichloroethylene
Arsenic
| 12 13
|
| 1982-1984
| Testicular cancer
| Fulton County, New York
| 3
| dimethylformamide (DMF)
2-ethoxyethanol
2-ethoxyethyl acetate
2-butoxyethanol
| 14
|
| 1987-1999
| Brain cancer, Leukemia, Lymphoma
| Wilmington, Massachusetts
| 20
| Unknown
N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA)
| 15 16 17
|
| 1997-2002
| Leukemia
| Fallon, Nevada
| 16
| Unknown
Arsenic
Tungsten
Chlorpyrifos
DDE
| 18 19 20
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Notes
- Note 1: Grady, Denise (Oct. 8, 1998). A Glow in the Dark, and a Lesson in Scientific Peril (http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/100698sci-radium.html). The New York Times.
- Note 2: Thun, Michael J. Sinks, Thomas.(2004). What is a Cancer Cluster? CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians (http://caonline.amcancersoc.org/cgi/content/full/54/5/273#SEC2) 54 (5), 273–280.
- Note 3: Jones, Lovell A. Hajek, Richard A. (1995). Effects of Estrogenic Chemicals on Development. Environmental Health Perspectives (http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/docs/1995/Suppl-7/jones.html) 103 (7), 63–67.
- Note 4: US Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2005). Role of DES Cohort Studies (http://www.cdc.gov/DES/consumers/research/understanding_cohort.html). Retrieved Jan. 31, 2005.
- Note 5: McDonald, JC. Harris, J. Armstrong, B. (2004). Occupational and Environmental Medicine (http://oem.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/abstract/61/4/363) 61 (4), 363–366.
- Note 6: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. (Feb. 7, 1997). Epidemiologic Notes and Reports Angiosarcoma of the Liver Among Polyvinyl Chloride Workers -- Kentucky. (http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00046136.htm) 46 (5), 97–101.
- Note 7: US Department of Health and Human Services, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). (Jul. 2003). Survey of Childhood Cancers and Birth Defects at USMC Camp Lejeune (http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/sites/lejeune/survey_full.html). Retrieved Jan. 31, 2005
- Note 8: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. (August 24, 1984). Brain Cancer -- Texas (http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00000393.htm) 33 (33), 477–479.
- Note 9: US Environmental Protection Agency. (December 14th, 2004). CIBA-GEIGY CORP (http://www.epa.gov/region02/superfund/npl/ciba/). Retrieved Jan. 31, 2005
- Note 10: New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, Hazardous Site Health Evaluation Program, Division of Epidemiology, Environmental and Occupational Health, & US Department of Health and Human Services, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). (Sep. 1997). Childhood Cancer Incidence Health Consultation: A Review and Analysis of Cancer Registry Data, 1979-1995 for Dover Township (Ocean County), New Jersey (http://www.state.nj.us/health/eoh/hhazweb/cansumm.pdf)
- Note 11: NJDHSS, ATSDR. (Dec. 2001). Case-control Study of Childhood Cancers in Dover Township (Ocean County), New Jersey. Volume 1: Summary of the Final Technical Report PDF 134KB (http://www.state.nj.us/health/eoh/hhazweb/case-control_pdf/Volume_I/Voli.pdf). See also: Dover Township Childhood Cancer Investigation (http://www.state.nj.us/health/eoh/hhazweb/dovertwp.htm). Retrieved Jan. 31, 2005.
- Note 12: Massachusetts Department of Public Health and Bureau of Environmental Health Assessment. (1997). BEHA Reports - Woburn, Massachusetts (http://www.mass.gov/dph/beha/cau/reports/woburn/woburn.htm). Retrieved Jan. 31, 2005.
- Note 13: . Costas, K. Knorr, RS. Condon, SK. (Dec. 2, 2002). A caseĀcontrol study of childhood leukemia in Woburn, Massachusetts: the relationship between leukemia incidence and exposure to public drinking water. Science of The Total Environment (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_aset=B-WA-A-B-ZC-MsSAYWW-UUW-AUEYEBAABV-AUEZCAAEBV-ZVCWECCUV-ZC-U&_rdoc=7&_fmt=summary&_udi=B6V78-462BHTK-6&_coverDate=12%2F02%2F2002&_cdi=5836&_orig=search&_st=13&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=2d94c59a4331e2dede71829a2b267285) 300 (1-3), 23–35.
- Note 14: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. (Feb. 24, 1989). Epidemiologic Notes and Reports Testicular Cancer in Leather Workers -- Fulton County, New York (http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00001352.htm) 38 (7), 105–106, 111–114.
- Note 15: Massachusetts Department of Public Health. (2002). Wilmington Childhood Cancer Study. Bureau of Environmental Health Assessment (http://www.mass.gov/dph/beha/cau/reports/wilmington/wilmington.htm). Retrieved Jan. 31, 2005.
- Note 16: Massachusetts Department of Public Health. (Aug. 2000). Letter to the Wilmington Board of Health. Evaluation of Cancer Incidence data for the Town of Wilmington, Massachusetts 1987-1995 (http://www.mass.gov/dph/beha/cau/reports/wilmington/evaluation87to95.pdf). Retrieved Jan. 31, 2005.
- Note 17: Lowell Center for Sustainable Production, University of Massachusetts Lowell. (2003). Toxic chemicals and childhood cancer: A review of the evidence (http://www.uml.edu/umlmainpage/umlnews/pdf/ChildhoodCancerinMassachusettsv135.7.03.pdf). Retrieved Jan. 31, 2005.
- Note 18: National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2004). Cancer Clusters - Churchill County (Fallon), Nevada Exposure Assessment (http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/clusters/Fallon/default.htm). Retrieved Jan. 31, 2005.
- Note 19: Steinmaus, C. Lu, M. Todd, RL. Smith, AH. (2004). Probability Estimates for the Unique Childhood Leukemia Cluster in Fallon, Nevada, and Risks Near Other U.S. Military Aviation Facilities. Environmental Health Perspectives (http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/members/2004/6592/6592.html) 112 (6), 766–771 .
- Note 20: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). Nevada (http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/HAC/PHA/region_9.html#nevada). Retrieved Jan. 31, 2005.
- Note 21: Gardner, MJ. (1991). Father's occupational exposure to radiation and the raised level of childhood leukemia near the Sellafield nuclear plant. Environmental Health Perspectives (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=1954939) 94, 5–7.
- Note 22: Dickinson, H. Parker, L. (2002). Leukaemia and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in children of male Sellafield radiation workers. International Journal of Cancer (http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/92013261/ABSTRACT) 99 (3) , 437–444.
- Note 23: Pobel, D. Viel, JF. (1997). Case-control study of leukaemia among young people near La Hague nuclear reprocessing plant: the environmental hypothesis revisited. British Medical Journal (http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/314/7074/101) 314 (101).
- Note 24: Seth, A. (1997) Leukemia Clusters Near La Hague and Sellafield. Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (http://www.ieer.org/ensec/no-4/lahague.html) (4). Retrieved Jan. 31, 2005.
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