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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.
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 ...
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.
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.
Gordon Research Conferences are a group of international scientific conferences organized by a non-profit organization of the same name, since 1931 covering frontier research in the chemical, and physical and later biological, sciences, and their related technologies. The conferences have been held in the US since 1931, and have expanded to ...
TOKYO (Reuters) -Foreign and defence ministers from Japan and the United States will hold security talks on July 28 that for the first time will cover "extended deterrence", a term used to ...
The average annual incidence in the United States, 1975–1995, was 233 per million infants. [30] Several estimates of incidence exist. According to SEER, [30] in the United States in 1999: Neuroblastoma comprised 28% of infant cancer cases and was the most common malignancy among these young children, at 65 cases per million infants.