Breast cancer in Marin County.
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.
Whittemore
Alice S
AS
Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA. alicesw@stanford.edu
D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012495:San Francisco / Q000453:epidemiology