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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 ...
1962 – CDC played a key role in one of the greatest triumphs of public health: the eradication of smallpox. 1963 – CDC tested the newly developed jet injector vaccine for smallpox. 1964 – The first Surgeon General's report linking smoking to lung cancer was released.
The Center for Environmental Health was an outgrowth of CDC's heavy involvement in recent environmental health incidents such as chemical contamination in Triana, Alabama and Love Canal, the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, and the eruption of Mount St. Helens; it also inherited existing programs in rat control, lead, dental disease, cancer ...
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.
The rate of child and teen cancer deaths in the U.S. fell 24% between 2001 and 2021, ... according to the CDC report. Death rates for brain cancer that year were 23% higher than for leukemia, and ...
Pages in category "Cancer-related timelines" ... List of cancer clusters; T. Timeline of cancer treatment development
1900 – Swedish Dr. Stenbeck cures a skin cancer with small doses of radiation [4]; 1920s – Dr. William B. Coley's immunotherapy treatment, regressed tumors in hundreds of cases, the success of Coley's Toxins attracted heavy resistance from his rival and supervisor, Dr. James Ewing, who was an ardent supporter of radiation therapy for cancer.
The CDC also works on non-communicable diseases, including chronic diseases caused by obesity, physical inactivity and tobacco-use. [80] The work of the Division for Cancer Prevention and Control, led from 2010 by Lisa C. Richardson, is also within this remit. [81] [82]