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This is a list of cancer clusters. It should be noted that a cancer cluster is a statistical event, which may or may not have a cause other than chance. There are other cancer clusters that occur without any obvious source of carcinogens.
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US Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2005). Role of DES Cohort Studies. Retrieved Jan. 31, 2005.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. (August 24, 1984). Brain Cancer -- Texas 33 (33), 477–479.
US Environmental Protection Agency. (December 14th, 2004). CIBA-GEIGY CORP. Retrieved Jan. 31, 2005
. Costas, K. Knorr, RS. Condon, SK. (Dec. 2, 2002). A case–control study of childhood leukemia in Woburn, Massachusetts: the relationship between leukemia incidence and exposure to public drinking water. Science of The Total Environment 300 (1-3), 23–35.
Steinmaus, C. Lu, M. Todd, RL. Smith, AH. (2004). Probability Estimates for the Unique Childhood Leukemia Cluster in Fallon, Nevada, and Risks Near Other U.S. Military Aviation Facilities. Environmental Health Perspectives 112 (6), 766–771 .
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). Nevada. Retrieved Jan. 31, 2005.
Gardner, MJ. (1991). Father's occupational exposure to radiation and the raised level of childhood leukemia near the Sellafield nuclear plant. Environmental Health Perspectives 94, 5–7.
Dickinson, H. Parker, L. (2002). Leukaemia and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in children of male Sellafield radiation workers. International Journal of Cancer 99 (3), 437–444.
Pobel, D. Viel, JF. (1997). Case-control study of leukaemia among young people near La Hague nuclear reprocessing plant: the environmental hypothesis revisited. British Medical Journal 314 (101).
Hoffmann, W. Schmitz-Feuerhake, I. Dieckmann, Hayo (1997). A cluster of childhood leukemia near a nuclear reactor in Northern Germany. Archives Environ. Health 52 (1997) 275-280.
Brüske-Hohlfeld, I. et al. A cluster of childhood leukemias near two neighbouring nuclear installations in Northern Germany: prevalence of chromosomal aberrations in peripheral blood lymphocytes. Int. J. Radiat. Biol. 77 (2001) 111-116.
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