Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Brain, CNS cancer: Toms River, New Jersey: 90+ SAN trimer Styrene Acrylonitrile [9] [10] [11] 1973–1986 Leukemia: Woburn, Massachusetts: 21 Chloroform Tetrachloroethylene Trichloroethylene 1,2-Dichloroethene Arsenic [12] [13] 1982–1984 Testicular cancer: Fulton County, New York: 3 Dimethylformamide (DMF) 2-Ethoxyethanol 2-Ethoxyethyl ...
It is a well-known problem in interpreting data that random cases of cancer can appear to form clumps that are misinterpreted as a cluster. [5] A cluster is less likely to be coincidental if the case consists of one type of cancer, a rare type of cancer, or a type of cancer that is not usually found in a certain age group.
The North American Association of Central Cancer Registries, Inc. is a professional organization that develops and promotes uniform data standards for cancer registration; provides education and training; certifies population-based registries; aggregates and publishes data from central cancer registries; and promotes the use of cancer surveillance data and systems for cancer control and ...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines a cancer cluster as a greater-than-expected number of cancer cases that are either the same, similar or have similar causes.
Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation is a 2013 nonfiction book by the American author Dan Fagin. [1] It is about the dumping of industrial pollution by chemical companies including Ciba-Geigy, in Toms River, New Jersey, beginning in 1952 through the 1980s, [2] and the epidemiological investigations of a cancer cluster that subsequently emerged there.
Following the McFarland Cancer Cluster in 1975, the small city in California never fully recovered from the effects of the pesticides. This is a city inhabited mostly by farmworkers, and 94% of the population is Latino. [28] City leaders believed that the poor economy of the city was to blame for the Cancer Cluster.
The American Cancer Society (ACS) is a nationwide non-profit organization dedicated to eliminating cancer. Established in 1913, the society is organized into six geographical regions of both medical and lay volunteers operating in more than 250 Regional offices throughout the United States. [1] Its global headquarters is located in the American ...
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!