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Disease Clusters: Bibliography

General Cluster Analysis:

Acheson ED "Clinical Practice and Epidemiology: Two Worlds or One?" Brit Med J March 1979: 1: 723-726.

Aldrich TE " Statistical Analysis of Potential Cancer Clusters"

Oncology 1981;38: 144-146.

Bender AP "Public Health Response to Reports of Clusters" in National Conference on the Clustering of Health Events sponsored by the CDC, Atlanta Georgia, February 1989.

Caldwell GG, Heath CW "Case Clustering in Cancer" South Med J Dec 1976; 69 (12):1598-1692.

CDC "Pneumocystis Carinii Pneumonia -- Los Angeles" MMWR 30:250-252, 1981.

Checkoway H, Pearce N, Crawford-Brown DJ Research Methods in Occupational Epidemiology New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Chen R, Mantel N, Klinberg MA "A Study of Three Techniqes for Time-Space Clustering in Hodgkin's Disease" Stats in Med 1984; 3:173-184.

Creech JL, Johnson MN "Angiosarcoma of the Liver in the Manufacture of Polyvinyl Chloride" J Occ Med 1974:16 (3):150-51.

Doll R "Occupational Cancer: Problems in Interpreting Human Evidence" Brit Occ Hyg 1984: 28 (3): 291-305.

Ducatman AM, Conwill DE, Crawl J "Germ Cell Tumors of the Testicle among Aircraft Repairmen" J Urology 1986:136:834-836.

Ederer F, Myers MH, Mantel N "A Statistical Problem in Space and Time: Do Leukemia Cases come in Clusters?" Biometrics 1964: 20: 626-638.

Enterline PE "Evaluating Cancer Clusters" Am Ind Hyg Ass J 1985: 46: B10-B13.

Frumkin H, Kantrowitz W "Cancer Clusters in the Workplace: an Approach to Investigation" J Occ Med 1987:29 (12):949-952.

Garfinkel L "Cancer Clusters" CA-A Can J Clinicians 1987:37 (1):20-25.

Groves FD, Zavala DE, Correa P "Variation in International Cancer Mortality: Factor and Cluster Analysis" Int J Epi 1987:16 (4):501-508.

Grufferman S "Hodgkin's Disease" In: Schottenfeld D, Fraumeni JF (eds) Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Philadelphia: WB Saunders Company, 1982:744.

Knox, G "Epidemiology of Childhood Leukemia in Northumberland and Durham" Br J Prev Soc Med 1964: 18: 17-24.

Knox G "The Detection of Time-Space Interactions" App Stats

1964:13:25-29.

Knox G "Detection of Low Intensity Epidemicity: Application to Cleft Lip and Palate" Brit J Prev Soc Med 1963:17:121-127.

Lagakos SW, Wesson BJ, Zelen M "An Analysis of Contaminated Well Water and Health Effects in Woburn, Massachusetts" J Am Statistical Ass 1986:81 (395): 583-596.

Mantel M, Kryscio RJ, Myers UH "Tables and Formulas for extended use of the Ederer-Myers-Mantel Disease-Clustering Procedure" Am J Epi 1976:86:576-584.

Mantel N "Detection of Disease Clustering and an Generalized Regression Approach" Can Res 1967:27 (2):209-220.

National Conference on the Clustering of Health Events, sponsored by the CDC, Atlanta Georgia, February 1989.

Pearson, K "Multiple cases of disease in the same house" Biometrica 1913:9:28-33.

Pike MC, Smith PG "Disease Clustering: a Generalization of Knox's Approach to the Detection of Space-Time Interactions" Biometrics 1968:24:541-556.

Pike MC, Williams EH, Wright B "Burkitt's Tumor in the West Nile District of Uganda 1961-5" Br Med J 2:395-399, 1967.

Pinkel D. Nefzger D "Some Epidemiologic Features of Childhood Leukemia in Buffalo NY Area" Cancer 1959: 12:351-358.

Rothman KJ "Clustering of Disease" AJPH 1987:77 (1): 13-15.

Schneeweiss R "Diagnosis Clusters: a New Approach for Reporting the Diagnostic Content of Family Practice Residents' Ambulatory Experiences" J Fam Prac 1985;20 (5):487-492.

Schulte PA , Ehrenberg RL, Singal M "Investigation of Occupational Cancer Clusters" AJPH 1987:77(1):52.

Selvin S, Shaw G, Schulman J, Merrill DW "Spatial Distribution of Disease: Three Case Studies" J Nat Can Inst 1987:79 (3):417-423.

Silcocks BS, Murrells T "Space-Time Clustering and Bone Tumors: Application of Knox's Method to Data from a Population-Based Cancer Registry" Brit J Cancer 1987:40:769-771.

Smith PG "Spatial and Temporal Clustering" In: Schottenfeld D, Fraumeni JF eds Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Philadelphia: WB Saunders Comp, 1982: Chapter 21.

Weinstock MA "A Generalised Scan Statistic Test for the Detection of Clusters" Int J Epi 1981:10:289-293.

 

Occupational Health & Cluster Analysis:

Enterline PE "Evaluating Cancer Clusters" Am Ind Hyg Ass J 1985:46:B-10 - B-13.

Ducatman AM, Crawl J,Cronwil DE "Cancer Clusters: Correlation, Causation, and Common Sense" ChemTech April 1988: 204-210.

Fleming LE, Ducatman AM, Shalat SL. "Disease Clusters: a Central and Ongoing Role in Occupational Medicine" J Occ Med, 1991;33:818-825.

Fleming LE, Ducatman AM, Shalat SL "Disease Clusters in Occupational Medicine: A Protocol for Their Investigation in the Workplace", Am J Ind Med, 1992;22:33-47.

Frumkin H, Kantrowitz W "Cancer Clusters in the Workplace: an Approach to Investigation" JOM 1987:29 (12):949-952.

Rothman KJ "Clustering of Disease" AJPH 1987:77 (1):13-15.

Rutstein DD, Mullan RJ, Frazier TM, Halperin WE et al "Sentinel Health Events (Occupational): a Basis For Physician Recognition and Public Health Surveillance" AJPH 1983:73 (9):1054-1062.

Schulte PA, Ehrenberg RL, Singal M "Investigation of Occupational Cancer Clusters: Theory and Practice" AJPH 1987:77 (1):52-56.

 

Examples of Occupational Disease Clusters:

 

"USA Today, NIOSH Investigating Cause of Miscarriage Cluster in Newsroom Workers" Occ Safety & Health Reporter March 8 1989:1700.

Creech JL, Johnson MN "Angiosarcoma of Liver in the Manufacture of Polyvinyl Chloride" JOM 1974:16 (3):150-151.

Doll R, Morgan LG, Speizer FE "Cancer of the Lung and Nasal Sinuses in Nickel Workers" Br J Cancer 1970:24:623-632.

Ducatman AM, Conwill DE, Crawl J "Germ Cell Tumors of the Testicle among Airplane Repairmen" J Urol 1986:136:834-836.

Figueroa WG, Faszkowski RW "Lung Cancer in Chloromethyl Ether Workers" NEJM 1973:288:1096-1097.

Fleming LE, Shalat SL, Redlich CA "Further Investigation of a Cluster of Toxic Hepatitis in Workers Exposed to the Solvent Dimethylformamide (DMF)" Scand J of Work Health & Environment, 1990;16:289-92.

Frumin E, Brathwaite M, Towne W et al "Testicular Cancer in Leather Workers -- Fulton County, New York" MMWR 1989:38 (7):105-114.

Levin SM, Baker DB, Landrigan, PJ et al "Testicular Cancer in Leather Tanners Exposed to Dimethylformamide (Letter)" Lancet 1987:2:1153.

Mirabelli D, Ciccarelli E, Merletti F "Pituitary Adenomas in a Cosmetics Factory" Br J Ind Med 1987:44:845.

Redlich AC, Beckett WS, Sparer JS et al "Liver Disease Associated with Occupational Exposure to the Solvent Dimethylformamide" Ann Int Med 1988:108: 680-686.

Selikoff IJ, Hammond EC, Seidman H "Mortality Experience of Insulation Workers in the US and Canada, 1943-1976" Ann NY Acad Sci 1979:330:91-116.

Shalat SL, True L, Fleming LE, Pace P "Kidney Cancer in Utility Workers Exposed to PCBs" Brit J Ind Med pending publication.

Wagner JC, Sleggs CA, Marchand P "Diffuse Pleural Mesothelioma and Tumors in Industrial Wrokers" Br J Ind Med 1960:17:260-271.

Whorton D, Krauss RM, Marshall S et al "Infertility in Male Pesticide Workers" Lancet December 17, 1977:1259-61.

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