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Patterns of Pediatric Cancers in Florida: 2000-2015
Statistics and Public Policy, Vol.6(1), pp.24-35
01/01/2019
Web of Science ID: WOS:000469979900001
Abstract
This study identifies pediatric cancer clusters in Florida for the years 2000-2015. Unlike previous publications on pediatric cancers in Florida, it draws upon an Environmental Protection Agency dataset on carcinogenic air pollution, the National Air Toxics Assessment, as well as more customary demographic variables (age, sex, race). The focus is upon the three most widely seen pediatric cancer types in the USA: brain tumors, leukemia, and lymphomas. The covariates are used in a Poisson regression to predict cancer incidence. The adjusted cluster analysis quantifies the role of each covariate. Using Florida Association of Pediatric Tumor Programs data for 2000-2015, we find statistically significant pediatric cancer clusters, but we cannot associate air pollution with the cancer incidence.
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- Title
- Patterns of Pediatric Cancers in Florida: 2000-2015
- Publication Details
- Statistics and Public Policy, Vol.6(1), pp.24-35
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Copyright
- © 2019 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor and Francis Group, LLC This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The moral rights of the named author(s) have been asserted.
- Identifiers
- WOS:000469979900001; 99380171566806600
- Academic Unit
- Hal Marcus College of Science and Engineering ; Mathematics and Statistics
- Language
- English