AiS Challenge Team Interim
Team Number: 046
School name: Lovington High School
Area of Science: Medicine and Health
Project Title: Cancer Clusters in Lea County.
Is there a relationship between certain types
of cancer and toxic exposure?
Introduction
Lea County has a very high cancer rate and we were curious as to why. We
wanted to know if there was a correlation between certain types of cancer
and toxic exposures. We used a cancer incidence rates report in Eddy and
Lea counties compiled
by WIPP and the College of Engineering at New Mexico State University to
see if we could find a pattern between high cancer incidence rates and
toxic exposures.
Problem
Is there a pattern between high cancer incidence rates and toxic exposure?
If so, what are the future trends of cancer in Eddy and Lea Counties?
Method of Solution
We will write a program that compiles the database
results from the above mentioned reports into an array that will calculate
and predict future incidences of certain kinds of cancers in the Lea
County area.
Results
To be determined.
Conclusions
To be determined.
Bibliography
"Cancer Incidence Rates in Eddy and Lea Counties, New Mexico 1970-1994."
Waste-Management Education and REsearch Consortium (WERC) College of
Engineering at New Mexico State University
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