Lung and Laryngeal Cancers in Relation to Shipyard Employment in Coastal Virginia

An interview study of next-of-kin of 325 persons who died of bladder cancer and 673 individuals who died of other causes in Vermont and New Hampshire (United States) was conducted to assess reasons for the persistent pattern of elevated bladder cancer mortality for both genders in rural New England. There are some evidence of elevated risks for both leather and textile workers that rose to over twofold for workers who also lived near these industries and for persons with French-Canadian ancestry. Occupational exposures in the textile and leather industry may explain at least a portion of the excess bladder cancer risk in rural New England.

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Space-time visualization and analysis in the Cancer Atlas Viewer

Greiling

Jacquez

Kaufmann

et al. 2005

J Geograph Syst

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This article describes the Cancer Atlas Viewer: free, downloadable software for the exploration of United States cancer mortality data. We demonstrate the software by exploring spatio-temporal patterns in colon cancer mortality rates for African-American and white females and males in the southeastern United States over the period 1970-1995. We compare the results of two cluster statistics: the local Moran and the local G*, through time.. Overall, the two statistics reach similar conclusions for most locations, although where they disagree reveals some interesting patterns in the data. There are only two persistent clusters of colon cancer mortality, and these are clusters of low values.

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Lung and Laryngeal Cancers in Relation to Shipyard Employment in Coastal Virginia

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Space-time visualization and analysis in the Cancer Atlas Viewer

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