A clustering of prostatic cancer in an area with many manganese mines.
In the process of our mass screening trials for prostatic diseases, a significant clustering of prostatic cancer in a town in the suburbs of Kyoto was detected. Upon survey a possible association was found between the locations where the patients lived and the manganese ore deposits distributed in the town.
D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D008345:Manganese / Q000009:adverse effects*; D008403:Mass Screening; D008875:Middle Aged; D008906:Mining; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D013029:Space-Time Clustering
D008345:Manganese