Table 3.
Summary of cancers hypothesized to be linked to three most common community-identified chemicals.
| Trichloroethylene (TCE) (N = 20)a | Benzene (N = 16)a | Dioxin (N = 15)a | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cancer sites | N | Cancer sites | N | Cancer sites | N |
| All cancers | 15 | All cancers | 15 | All cancers | 11 |
| Breast | 4 | Brain | 2 | Lung | 2 |
| Leukemia | 4 | Lung | 2 | Brain | 2 |
| Brain/CNS | 2 | Breast | 1 | Pancreas | 1 |
| Lung | 2 | Uterus | 1 | Neuroblastoma | 1 |
| Uterus | 1 | Leukemia | 1 | Melanoma | 1 |
| Abdomen | 1 | Bone | 1 | Colon | 1 |
| Colon | 1 | Childhood - all | 1 | Stomach | 1 |
| Testes | 1 | ||||
| Kidney | 1 | ||||
| Pancreas | 1 | ||||
| Childhood - all | 1 | ||||
| Astrocytoma | 1 | ||||
| Sympathetic nervous system | 1 | ||||
| Neuroblastoma | 1 | ||||
| Wilm's tumor | 1 | ||||
| Bone | 1 | ||||
| Soft tissue sarcoma | 1 | ||||
| Lymphoma | 1 | ||||
| Hodgkin's disease | 1 | ||||
| Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma | 1 | ||||
| Stomach | 1 | ||||
a
Several cluster investigations examined more than one cancer category.