Open AccessSpatial–Temporal Cluster Analysis of Childhood Cancer in California
Author(s) -
Stephen Francis,
Catherine Enders,
Rebecca J Hyde,
Xing Gao,
Rong Wang,
Xiaomei Ma,
Joseph L. Wiemels,
Steve Selvin,
Catherine Metayer
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.901
H-Index - 173
eISSN - 1531-5487
pISSN - 1044-3983
DOI - 10.1097/ede.0000000000001121
Subject(s) - medicine , population , demography , cancer , cluster (spacecraft) , oncology , environmental health , sociology , computer science , programming language
The observance of nonrandom space-time groupings of childhood cancer has been a concern of health professionals and the general public for decades. Many childhood cancers are suspected to have initiated in utero; therefore, we examined the spatial-temporal randomness of the birthplace of children who later developed cancer.