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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] 1993–2008 Childhood brain cancer, brain tumors, colon cancer, anal cancer, rectal ...
The epidemiology of cancer is the study of the factors affecting cancer, as a way to infer possible trends and causes. The study of cancer epidemiology uses epidemiological methods to find the cause of cancer and to identify and develop improved treatments. This area of study must contend with problems of lead time bias and length time bias ...
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.
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State Sen. Vickie Sawyer, an Iredell County Republican, represents a district that has grappled with concerns about cancer clusters for years, with many linking cases to coal ash.
In the United States during 2013–2017, the age-adjusted mortality rate for all types of cancer was 189.5/100,000 for males, and 135.7/100,000 for females. [1] Below is an incomplete list of age-adjusted mortality rates for different types of cancer in the United States from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results program.