title: Breast cancer in Marin County.
abstract: Two articles previously published in Breast Cancer Research illustrate the high rates of breast cancer in Marin County, a wealthy, urban county immediately northwest of the city of San Francisco. I herein comment on these articles, and on the political/psychological/scientific dilemma presented by regions with high cancer rates, such as Marin County. I discuss possible causes for such cancer 'clusters', and conclude with some thoughts about the future.
authors.affiliation: Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA. alicesw@stanford.edu
authors.forename: Alice S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Whittemore
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012495:San Francisco / Q000453:epidemiology