General Information Sources

CDC Cancer Clusters Information
http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/clusters/

National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Cluster Information
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/clusters

Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease Registry
http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/

Links to State Health Departments
http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/clusters/statelocal.htm

Other Tools:

EPA: Concerned Citizens Resources
http://www.epa.gov/epahome/citizen.htm

EPA: Envirofacts
http://www.epa.gov/enviro/index_java.html

EPA: Where You Live
http://www.epa.gov/epahome/comm.htm

Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results
http://www.seer.cancer.gov/

Community Health Studies and Environmental Contamination
http://www.communityhealthstudies.org/

Organizations working on environmental health

Trust for America’s Health
http://healthyamericans.org/

Collaborative on Health and the Environment
http://www.healthandenvironment.org/

Center for Health Environment and Justice
http://www.chej.org/

The Radiation and Public Health Project (The Tooth Fairy Project Study)
http://www.radiation.org/

Dr. Janette Sherman, MD and Toxicologist
http://www.janettesherman.com/

Commonweal
http://www.commonweal.org/

Children’s Environment Health Network
http://www.cehn.org

Healthy Child, Healthy World
http://www.healthychild.org/

Environmental Working Group
http://www.ewg.org/

NRDC: Natural Resources Defense Council
http://www.nrdc.org/

Science & Environmental Health Network
http://www.sehn.org/

Environmental Research Foundation-Rachel’s Weekly
http://www.rachel.org/

California Communities Against Toxics
http://www.stoptoxics.net/

Physicians for Social Responsibility
http://www.psr.org/

Union of Concerned Scientists
http://www.ucsusa.org/

Nuclear Information and Resource Service
http://www.nirs.org/

US Public Interest Research Group
http://www.uspirg.org/

Miscellaneous information about clusters:

California Environmental Health Tracking Program, Disease Clusters
by Paul English PhD, MPH, Eric M. Roberts MD, PhD, Michelle Wong, MPH

Disease Cluster Investigations by Frank J. Bove, Sc. D

Woburn Cancer Cluster by Dr. Richard Clapp Sc.D

Information about specific clusters:

Carlsbad, CA
Carlsbad Cancer Connection

The Fallon Cancer Families, NV
http://falloncancercrisis.org/

Calvine-Florine area of Sacramento, CA
“Something’s Wrong”

Eastern Shore, Mobile, AL
Eastern Shore Community Health Partners

The Sierra Vista cancer cluster, AZ
http://www.familiesagainstcancer.org/

Tom’s River families, NJ
http://www.tr-teach.org/

Toxic Kitsap and Polluted Puget, WA
http://oc.itgo.com/

Pratt & Whitney Jet Engine Factory in CT
http://www.workedtodeath.net

Articles in the News:

Cape Cod Times: tree rings may provide clues to cancer

NDCA Assists Victor, NY TCE Plume Residents

Fallon Leukemia cluster
http://www.rgj.com/

Maryvale, AZ leukemia cluster
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/

Cluster investigation in Guam
http://www.guampdn.com/

Micah’s Mission, childhood leukemia, Athens GA
http://www.familiesagainstcancer.org/

For the Kids by Renee Downing, Tucson Weekly, 5/18/2006.

‘Tooth Fairy’ Studies Nuclear Effects on Kids by Eyewitness News Channel 3