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
If you suspect a cancer cluster in your community or workplace, or if you’d like information such as cancer statistics or trends in your area, first contact your state or local health department or state cancer registry. 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