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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 ...
A cancer cluster is a disease cluster in which a high number of cancer cases occurs in a group of people in a particular geographic area over a limited period of time. [ 1 ] Historical examples of work-related cancer clusters are well documented in the medical literature.
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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.
A disease cluster is an unusually large aggregation of a relatively uncommon disease (medical condition) or event within a particular geographical location or period. [1] Recognition of a cluster depends on its size being greater than would be expected by chance . [ 1 ]
SaTScan employs scan statistics to identify clusters of space and time phenomena. [1] Scan statistics use regular shapes (usually circles) of varying sizes to evaluate a study area. [8] [9] Within each circle, the software computes if the phenomena within the circle is significantly different than expected compared to the area outside the ...