What were the preliminary findings of the DHMH cancer data analysis?
Preliminary results were presented during the October 4, 2010 Community Cancer Concerns meeting by the Maryland Department of Health and mental Hygiene. The number of cases of cancer observed in the 3 census tracts examined (for the time period 2000-2007, using the Maryland Cancer Registry source of data, and for the cancers selected) were not statistically higher than what was expected based on Frederick County rates of cancer, but the number of all cases of cancer observed in the 3 census tracts examined was statistically greater than the number expected based upon the Maryland rate for all cancers in the same time period using the same source of data.

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1. What did the CDC’s Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) find in their 2009 Public Health Assessment?
2. Who is responsible for collecting information about cancer?
3. What is a cancer “cluster?”
4. How are cancer cluster concerns investigated in Maryland?
5. What is the relationship between cancer and environmental exposures?
6. What are the cancer rates in Frederick?
7. What was the scope of the preliminary cancer cluster investigation by the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH)?
8. Why was 2000 the earliest year of analysis in the preliminary report of the initial cancer cluster investigation?
9. What were the preliminary findings of the DHMH cancer data analysis?
10. Is the risk of non-cancer health conditions being assessed?
11. If significant excess cancers are found in a specific geographic area within the county, then what?
12. Who can I talk to for more information?