Defining a cancer cluster is easy. But determining whether a group of cancers is not a random event but an actual cancer cluster and, if so, what might have caused it—is one of the more difficult tasks public health officials face. This story explores why, more often than not, the investigators who study a cluster, and those affected by it, are left with more questions than answers.
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