New data bring to a close Australia’s most intensive cancer cluster investigation
Though only a small proportion of cancer clusters are reported in the peer-reviewed literature, a consistent picture emerges from those reports. The term “cancer cluster” refers to health authorities being alerted to a perceived increased incidence of cancer, involving 15 cases or fewer in the first instance, within a particular community or group. Aware of the anxiety generated by the prospect of a cancer cluster, cluster investigators focus on local circumstances that might account for increased risk, and if they fail to identify any such factors, the matter rests.1
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