A Multidisciplinary Investigation of a Polycythemia Vera Cancer Cluster of Unknown Origin

Cancer cluster investigations rarely receive significant public health resource allocations due to numerous inherent challenges and the limited success of past efforts. In 2008, a cluster of polycythemia vera, a rare blood cancer with unknown etiology, was identified in northeast Pennsylvania. A mul...

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Autores principales: Seaman, Vincent, Dearwent, Steve M, Gable, Debra, Lewis, Brian, Metcalf, Susan, Orloff, Ken, Tierney, Bruce, Zhu, Jane, Logue, James, Marchetto, David, Ostroff, Stephen, Hoffman, Ronald, Xu, Mingjiang, Carey, David, Erlich, Porat, Gerhard, Glenn, Roda, Paul, Iannuzzo, Joseph, Lewis, Robert, Mellow, John, Mulvihill, Linda, Myles, Zachary, Wu, Manxia, Frank, Arthur, Gross-Davis, Carol Ann, Klotz, Judith, Lynch, Adam, Weissfeld, Joel, Weinberg, Rona, Cole, Henry
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) 2010
Materias:
Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2872321/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20617023
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph7031139
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Sumario:Cancer cluster investigations rarely receive significant public health resource allocations due to numerous inherent challenges and the limited success of past efforts. In 2008, a cluster of polycythemia vera, a rare blood cancer with unknown etiology, was identified in northeast Pennsylvania. A multidisciplinary group of federal and state agencies, academic institutions, and local healthcare providers subsequently developed a multifaceted research portfolio designed to better understand the cause of the cluster. This research agenda represents a unique and important opportunity to demonstrate that cancer cluster investigations can produce desirable public health and scientific outcomes when necessary resources are available.

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