PMID- 4086139
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19860318
LR  - 20221207
IS  - 0300-5771 (Print)
IS  - 0300-5771 (Linking)
VI  - 14
IP  - 4
DP  - 1985 Dec
TI  - Clusters of cancer mortality in New Jersey municipalities; with special reference 
      to chemical toxic waste disposal sites and per capita income.
PG  - 528-37
AB  - The state of New Jersey (NJ), USA, has been thought to have an unusually high 
      cancer mortality rate; this assumption has been based on 1950-1969 mortality data 
      for NJ counties. This study presents an analysis of mortality from major cancers 
      for NJ municipalities during 1968-1977, and correlates cancer mortality rates 
      with several potentially relevant variables. Age-adjusted mortality rates for 13 
      major cancer sites for 194 municipalities of 10 000 or more people in 21 NJ 
      counties were compared with cancer mortality in the US. Municipality rates were 
      correlated with: distribution of chemical toxic waste disposal sites (CTWDS); 
      annual per capita income; the rates of low birth weight, birth defects and infant 
      mortality of NJ municipalities. Clusters of cancer mortality were observed in 23 
      municipalities in 10 counties in which a total of 98 age-adjusted cancer death 
      rates were at least 50% above the national rate, and each of these municipalities 
      had at least two race-sex-specific cancers in which the observed number of cancer 
      deaths was greater than the expected number of deaths at the p less than 0.0005 
      level. Of these 98 excessive cancer death rates, 72% involved the 
      gastrointestinal tract. Most of the municipalities are located in the highly 
      industrialized densely populated northeastern part of the State. Correlation 
      analyses showed a consistent and significant (p less than 0.05) negative 
      correlation between income and cancer mortality in 11 of 12 cancers studied. 
      These analyses also showed a significant positive association between 8 of 12 
      cancers studied and CTWDS in one or more subgroup populations and lesser 
      associations with birth defects, low birth weight and infant mortality.
FAU - Najem, G R
AU  - Najem GR
FAU - Louria, D B
AU  - Louria DB
FAU - Lavenhar, M A
AU  - Lavenhar MA
FAU - Feuerman, M
AU  - Feuerman M
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - England
TA  - Int J Epidemiol
JT  - International journal of epidemiology
JID - 7802871
RN  - 0 (Industrial Waste)
SB  - IM
MH  - Breast Neoplasms/mortality
MH  - Female
MH  - Gastrointestinal Neoplasms/mortality
MH  - Humans
MH  - Income
MH  - Industrial Waste/*adverse effects
MH  - Laryngeal Neoplasms/mortality
MH  - Lung Neoplasms/mortality
MH  - Male
MH  - Neoplasms/*mortality
MH  - New Jersey
MH  - Ovarian Neoplasms/mortality
MH  - Prostatic Neoplasms/mortality
MH  - Sex Factors
MH  - Urinary Bladder Neoplasms/mortality
MH  - Uterine Cervical Neoplasms/mortality
MH  - Uterine Neoplasms/mortality
MH  - White People
EDAT- 1985/12/01 00:00
MHDA- 1985/12/01 00:01
CRDT- 1985/12/01 00:00
PHST- 1985/12/01 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1985/12/01 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1985/12/01 00:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1093/ije/14.4.528 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Int J Epidemiol. 1985 Dec;14(4):528-37. doi: 10.1093/ije/14.4.528.