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Table 1 Incident cancer cases of interest in the 12-County study area, 2000–2020

From: Enhanced spatial analysis assessing the association between PFAS-contaminated water and cancer incidence: rationale, study design, and methods

County

Primary Cancer Site

Bladder

Brain/CNS

Breast (female)

Colorectal

Endometrial (female)

Kidney

Liver

NHL

Ovarian (female)

Prostate (male)

Testicular (male)

Thyroid

Berks

189

501

4871

3662

1079

1228

531

1631

401

4759

213

938

Bucks

3921

1042

10,525

6818

2526

2458

1002

3127

1078

10,049

427

2373

Carbon

27

4

55

59

15

15

4

24

11

50

0

14

Chester

2347

724

7396

4254

1570

1464

589

1988

725

6612

307

1956

Delaware

3228

851

9617

6972

2223

2227

1093

2622

934

8770

303

1926

Lancaster

2369

697

6767

4723

1740

1413

584

2087

683

6019

270

1478

Lebanon

518

130

1247

993

393

331

134

392

124

1137

43

226

Lehigh

2098

555

5306

3720

1465

1402

597

1675

544

5145

162

1492

Monroe

685

203

1791

1258

490

407

196

503

204

1701

64

316

Montgomery

4692

1320

13,824

8502

3266

2911

1250

4083

1384

12,400

496

2472

Northampton

2138

469

4819

3396

1430

1323

555

1624

505

5021

194

1352

Schuylkill

628

137

1300

1266

390

352

144

457

151

1287

44

234

Total

22,840

6633

67,518

45,623

16,587

15,531

6679

20,213

6744

62,950

2523

14,777

  1. Note: CNS: Central nervous system, NHL: Non-Hodgkin lymphoma