This is a list of cancer clusters. A cancer cluster is a statistical event, which may or may not have a cause other than chance. There are other cancer clusters that occur without any obvious source of carcinogens.
| North America | |||||
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| Date | Disease | Location | Number of cases | Cause | References |
| 1917–1927 | Osteosarcoma | New Jersey, Connecticut, Illinois | 86 | Radium | [1][2] |
| 1938–1971 | Adenocarcinoma | U.S. | 750 | Diethylstilbestrol | [3][4] |
| ?–2018 | Various cancers | St. Louis, Missouri | 56 | Uranium | [5] |
| 1967–1973 | Liver angiosarcoma (Hemangiosarcoma) | Louisville, Kentucky | 4 | Vinyl chloride monomer | [6] |
| 1968–1995 | Leukemia, Lymphoma | Camp Lejeune, North Carolina | 13[note 1] | Trichloroethylene 1,2-Dichloroethylene Tetrachloroethylene Methylene chloride Vinyl chloride
Main article: Camp Lejeune water contamination
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[8][7] |
| 1979–1996 | Brain, CNS cancer | Toms River, New Jersey | 90+ | SAN trimer Styrene Acrylonitrile |
[9][10][11] |
| 1973–1986 | Leukemia | Woburn, Massachusetts | 21 | Chloroform Tetrachloroethylene Trichloroethylene 1,2-Dichloroethene Arsenic |
[12][13] |
| 1982–1984 | Testicular cancer | Fulton County, New York | 3 | Dimethylformamide (DMF) 2-Ethoxyethanol 2-Ethoxyethyl acetate 2-Butoxyethanol |
[14] |
| 1987–1999 | Brain cancer, Leukemia, Lymphoma | Wilmington, Massachusetts | 20 | Unknown N-Nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) |
[15][16][17] |
| 1993–2008 | Childhood brain cancer, brain tumors, colon cancer, anal cancer, rectal cancer, breast cancer. Also nervous system damaged. | The Acreage, Florida | Unknown | Unknown Some have linked it to a nearby Pratt and Whitney, Beach Aggregates, and the Florida crystals. |
[18] |
| 1997–2002 | Leukemia, rhabdomyosarcoma | Fallon, Nevada | 17 | Unknown Tungsten Arsenic Chlorpyrifos Dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene (DDE) Benzeneinjet fuel |
[19][20][21][22] |
| 1996–2013 | Leukemia, Brain Tumors, lymphoma, Other Forms | Clyde, Ohio | 36, mostly children | Unknown
Main article: Clyde cancer cluster
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[23] |
| 1953–2010 | wide range of cancers | Shannon, Quebec | 400 | Trichloroethylene | [24][25] |
| 2009-2024 | wide range of cancers, predominantly breast cancer | Raleigh, NC | 99 | Aroclor 1262, a commercial mixture of polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) compounds | 37 |
| Europe | |||||
| Date | Disease | Location | Number of cases | Cause | References |
| 1968–1995 | Leukemia | Seascale, Sellafield, England | 9 | Unsure Studies indicate a correlation with paternal preconceptional irradiation (PPI) |
[26][27] |
| 1978–1993 | Leukemia | La Hague, Normandy, France | 27 | Unknown Speculated to be tritium |
[28][29] |
| 1980s | Leukemia, Brain tumors | East Yorkshire, England | 13 | Polonium 210, Lead, Arsenic and other metal emitter; unproven link to Capper Pass tin smelter in Melton | [30][31][32][33] |
| 1990–2005 | Leukemia | Elbmarsch, Lower Saxony and Krümmel (Kruemmel), Geesthacht, Schleswig-Holstein in Germany | 16 | Unknown Speculated to be actinide, especially Plutonium241 of unknown origin that was found in the area or tritium from a nearby nuclear power plant
See also: Elbmarsch § Cancer cluster
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| India | |||||
| Date | Disease | Location | Number of cases | Cause | References |
| mid 1980s | Skin Lesions, Arsenicosis | West Bengal, India | Unknown | Arsenic | [36] |
We cannot, in any way, attribute excess cancers to the practices at, or discharges from, the plant. All we can say in summary is that there is far too little information on which to form a sound judgment
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