CDC Review of the Northern California Cancer Center Report: Status of Breast Cancer Research in the San Francisco Bay Area. Report to Congress

摘要

Due to a history of high breast cancer incidence rates in the San Francisco Bay Area, in September 1997, the House Appropriations Committee of the United States Congress urged the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) to: collaborate with state and local health departments to review existing cancer registry data on breast cancer incidence and mortality in the (San Francisco) Bay Area to determine what area-based assessments may be necessary and, on the basis of this review, to issue a report on findings and recommendations.