Cancers in the Urban Environment

Features:

• Compares different types of cancers with respect to the degree of non-random occurrence
• Contains numerous maps detailing the demographic and geographic pattern of cancer occurrence in Los Angeles County
• Provides an empirical perspective on the search for disease "clusters"

Table Of Contents:

1. What Cancers Are

2. Environmental and Other Causes of Cancer

3. Resources Used to Detect Local Increases in Risk

4. Methods Used to Detect Local Increases in Risk

5. Errors Due to Chance

6. Comparison Between "Apples" and "Oranges"

7. Failure to Detect Local Increases in Risk

8. Investigating a Lead

9. Guide to the Figures

10. Interpretation

11. Scientific and Technical Notes

12. Oropharyngeal Carcinoma

13. Salivary Gland Malignancies

14. Squamous Carcinoma of the Esophagus/Gastric Cardia

15. Adenocarcinoma of the Esophagus/Gastric Cardia

16. Adenocarcinoma of the (Lower) Stomach

17. Carcinoma of the Small Intestine

18. Colon Carcinoma, Total (Both Upper and Sigmoid)

19. Carcinoma of the Upper Colon

20. Carcinoma of the Sigmoid Colon

21. Carcinoma of the Rectum

22. Hepatocellular Carcinoma

23. Cholangiocarcinoma

24. Gallbladder Carcinoma

25. Biliary Tract Carcinoma

26. Pancreas Carcinoma

27. Carcinoma of the Nose/Sinuses

28. Carcinoma of the Larynx

29. Lung and Bronchus Carcinoma, Total (All Types)

30. Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Lung and Bronchus

31. Large Cell carcinoma of the Lung and Bronchus

32. Small Cell Carcinoma of the Lung and Bronchus

33. Adenocarcinoma of the Lung and Bronchus

34. Bronchioloalveolar Carcinoma of the Lung and Bronchus

35. Undifferentiated Carcinoma of the Lung and Bronchus

36. Carcinoma of the Lung and Bronchus, Not Otherwise Classified

37. Mesothelioma

38. Soft Tissue Sarcoma

39. Angiosarcoma

40. Kaposi Sarcoma

41. Osteosarcoma

42. Ewing's Sarcoma

43. Malignant Chordoma

44. Malignant Melanoma

45. Breast Carcinoma

46. Squamous Cervix Carcinoma (Invasive)

47. Endometrial (Uterine Corpus) Carcinoma

48. Epithelial Carcinoma of the Ovary

49. Germ Cell Malignancies

50. Prostate Carcinoma

51. Anogenital Adenocarcinoma

52. Anogenital Squamous Carcinoma

53. Mixed Cell Genital Tumors

54. Transitional Cell (Non-Squamous) Bladder Carcinoma

55. Squamous Bladder Carcinoma

56. Renal Cell Carcinoma

57. Wilms Tumor (Nephroblastoma)

58. Retinoblastoma

59. Brain Malignancies (Gliomas)

60. Spinal Cord Malignancies

61. Neurolemoma (Nerve Sheath Malignancy)

62. Neuroblastoma

63. Malignant Meningioma

64. Papillary Carcinoma of the Thyroid

65. Follicular Carcinoma of the Thyroid

66. Other Carcinoma of the Thyroid

67. Pituitary Carcinoma

68. Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia

69. Carcinoma of the Thymus

70. Mixed Cellularity Hodgkin Lymphoma

71. Nodular Sclerosis Hodgkin Lymphoma

72. Other Hodgkin Lymphoma

73. All Non-Hodgkin Lymphomas (All Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Types)

74. Follicular Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

75. Diffuse Large B-Cell Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

76. Diffuse Small Lymphocytic or Plasmacytic B-Cell Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

77. Diffuse Mixed B-Cell Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

78. High-Grade Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

79. T-Cell Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

80. Maltoma Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

81. Other Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

82. Central Nervous System Non-Hodgkin Lymphomas (All Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Types)

83. Stomach Non-Hodgkin Lymphomas (All Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Types)

84. Other Gastrointestinal Non-Hodgkin Lymphomas (All Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Types)

85. Lymph Node/Other Organ Non-Hodgkin Lymphomas (All Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Types)

86. Multiple Myeloma

87. Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

88. Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia

89. Hairy Cell Leukemia

90. Acute Non-Lymphocytic Leukemia

91. Chronic Myelocytic Leukemia

92. Other Leukemias

93. All Malignancies of Infants/Toddlers

94. All Malignancies of Older Children

95. All Malignancies of Young Adults

96. All Malignancies of Older Adults

97. All Malignancies

98. Overall Summary