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cancer cluster Epidemiology A cancer that occurs in a group of people living or working in a geographically defined region who may share one or more environmental factors–eg, DES, and a characteristic lesion–eg, vaginal adenoCA,
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| has jumped from five to 60 -- suggesting that this must be the world's biggest cancer cluster. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) conducted a thorough investigation into the Fallon cancer duster; in fact, it was the largest cancer cluster investigation ever undertaken in the United States. They told reporters that despite the panic caused by Brodeur's "Calamity on Meadow Street" in The New Yorker, there was "absolutely no clustering" in Guilford and that the state investigation found "no cancer cluster on Meadow Street. |
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