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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 ...
In the U.S., state and local health departments respond to more than 1,000 inquiries about suspected cancer clusters each year. It is possible that a suspected cancer cluster may be due to chance alone; however, only clusters that have a disease rate that is statistically significantly greater than the disease rate of the general population are ...
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 ]
Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s 1 in 4 deaths. People with the highest cancer death rates ...
Deaths from cancer in New York (state) (12 C, 690 P) Deaths from cancer in North Carolina (3 C, 92 P) Deaths from cancer in North Dakota (6 P) O.
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.
A total of 5.94 million deaths were prevented for those five disease types, according to an NCI press release. Eighty percent of those averted deaths were attributed to screening and prevention.
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.