CDC's role in investigating cancer clusters

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Environmental Health (U.S.). Environmental Hazards and Health Effects. Health Studies Branch.
• Description:
  From 1961 to 1982, CDC investigated 108 reported cancer clusters in 29 states and 5 foreign countries (Caldwell GG. Twenty-two years of cancer cluster investigations at the Centers for Disease Control. Am J Epidemiol 1990; 132[1]:S43-S47). The studies were begun in hopes of identifying a viral cause of cancer clusters. During these investigations, however, no clear cause was determined for any of the reported clusters.
  
  A separate CDC investigation of a non-work-related cluster of Kaposi's sarcoma in the early 1980s did lead to the discovery of a cause. It was found that the vast majority of Kaposi's sarcoma cases developed in association with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).
  
  
• Content Notes:
  Introduction/Background -- Activity 1 -- Activity 2 -- Activity 3 -- Activity 4 -- Activity 5 -- Activity 6 -- Links -- References.
• Subjects:
  CDC--history Cluster Analysis Disease Hotspot History, 21st Century Neoplasms Public Health Surveillance/methods
• Document Type:
  Webpage
• Name as Subject:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.) ; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:0de46f3d42047ccf81f704b9c4791c900adeb01f73882c79b704e563b4c7c4f7
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/117880/cdc_117880_DS1.pdf
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