Talk:List of cancer clusters

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Highly publicized Australian breast cancer cluster?[edit]

What about the cancer cluster (mainly breast I think) at the now-abandoned ABC studio at Toowong in Queensland in Australia? It was judged to be significant and was the subject of serious investigation and was also highly publicised in Australia. Here's a link: http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s2056788.htm It was possibly an illustration of shift work as a carcinogen, and idea that is probably novel to the average person, who seems to think that "chemicals" in food and psychological stress are major carcinogens, rather than alcohol, ciggies and unnatural lifestyles. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 106.69.41.254 (talk) 03:35, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Conversion[edit]

Conversion to table wikicode in progress... --Viriditas | Talk 02:40, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Automatically converted on 02:46, 29 Jan 2005. --Viriditas | Talk 10:18, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Recent additions[edit]

Editors have recently attempted to add Love Canal, Texas City, and Santa Ana to the list, but I can't find any supporting documentation on statistically significant or noteworthy cancer clusters in those areas. Studies are ongoing for Love Canal, so there might be some data to add. Research regarding Texas City appears to be ongoing as well. Santa Ana has not been classified as a cancer cluster. Table of removed content follows. --Viriditas | Talk 07:56, 15 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Recent additions that are not classified as cancer clusters
Date	Disease	Location	Number	Source	Refs
1980-1993	Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, lung cancer, brain cancer	Texas City	~100	Benzene, PVC byproducts	N/A
1970s	Many	Love Canal	Innumerable	Large number of teratogens and mutagens, including nuclear waste and dioxin, individual components hard to trace due to lack of records	N/A
2004-2005	Leukemia	Franklin Elementary School, Santa Ana, California	5	Unknown	[1]

Historical cancer clusters[edit]

Would the 18th century scrotal cancers suffered by chimney sweeps and noticed by Percival Pott qualify as a cancer cluster? --Charlene.fic 03:56, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Probably, yes. I think the reason it wasn't added was because I couldn't find the actual data. —Viriditas | Talk 07:20, 23 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Shannon, Quebec[edit]

Somebody added the Shannon, Quebec case, however, this is not classified as a true cancer cluster. Viriditas (talk) 02:31, 18 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delaware[edit]

This cluster was confirmed by State of DE, I typed this in (and the first ref) by hand from a copy of the newspaper (I added refs to other sources I just found ont eh web, worth a look, but the main one is the Associated Press story). I'll let others add where/when appropriate into the table format which I'm not familiar with. Info: In 2007 the Associated Press reported a confirmed cancer cluster in Delaware,

Delaware health officials have confirmed what residents near a
coal-fired power plant long suspected: there is a cluster of cancer cases near the Indian River Power Plant. The News Journal reported Sunday that the rate of cancer cases in the area is 7 percent higher than the national average...The state study was released last month to Lt. Gov. John Carney, who requested the
report.."^[1]

(Hand typed from story "Cancer cluster found near power plant" with "Associated Press" listed as the author, The Daily Times (Salisbury, MD), page 1, August 6, 2007)

The same article noted that "the Division of Public Health is unlikely to study the matter further. The Department cited a lack of resources" as well as the difficulty of "pinning down"a precise environmental cause. The findings were reported elsewhere.^[2]^[3]^[4] --Harel (talk) 02:31, 3 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It's only a cancer cluster if it is confirmed by an actual medical study. Unfortunately, the media and public interest groups use the term loosely. You can read the cancer cluster article to get more information about the topic. Viriditas (talk) 13:00, 3 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Associated, Press (August 6, 2007), "Cancer cluster found near power plant", The Daily Times (Salisbury, MD), p. 1 {{citation}}: line feed character in |title= at position 15 (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)
^ [http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-10934832.html Cancer cluster found near Del. power plant ]
^ [http://clusteralliance.org/2008/05/04/eight-cancer-clusters-discovered-in-delaware/ Eight cancer clusters discovered in Delaware]
^ [http://lostontheshore.typepad.com/lost_on_the_shore/2009/01/the-big-waste-disposal-problem.html The Big Waste Disposal Problem]

Table?[edit]

What does this column "number" mean? Number of suspected incidences? Number of individuals confirmed to have the disease? Metrics explanation is severely lacking in this article and "location" column that references USA doesn't exactly narrow things down much. Also, cause can also be speculative in some instances - what is the source of these causes is not divulged in all references. Authors - please elaborate and get more specific. --71.245.164.83 (talk) 02:31, 2 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed! That column heading makes the table pretty much pointless. I suspect that it is the number of people with cancer, but I'm not going to make an edit till I know for sure. The lack of citations aren't helping either. Dylanesmo (talk) 13:09, 2 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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China's cancer villages[edit]

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22cancer+villages%22&t=ffab&ia=web lot of news sources showing a detailed coverage of this. Someone familiar with the topic, please add this. Dream Focus 17:59, 26 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Associated, Press (August 6, 2007), "Cancer cluster found near power plant", The Daily Times (Salisbury, MD), p. 1 {{citation}}: line feed character in |title= at position 15 (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)

[2] [http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-10934832.html Cancer cluster found near Del. power plant ]

[3] [http://clusteralliance.org/2008/05/04/eight-cancer-clusters-discovered-in-delaware/ Eight cancer clusters discovered in Delaware]

[4] [http://lostontheshore.typepad.com/lost_on_the_shore/2009/01/the-big-waste-disposal-problem.html The Big Waste Disposal Problem]

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