TY - JOUR AU - Bilancia, Massimo AU - Fedespina, Alessandro PY - 2009 DA - 2009/07/01 TI - Geographical clustering of lung cancer in the province of Lecce, Italy: 1992–2001 JO - International Journal of Health Geographics SP - 40 VL - 8 IS - 1 AB - The triennial mortality rates for lung cancer in the two decades 1981–2001 in the province of Lecce, Italy, are significantly higher than those for the entire region of Apulia (to which the Province of Lecce belongs) and the national reference rates. Moreover, analyzing the rates in the three-year periods 1993–95, 1996–98 and 1999–01, there is a dramatic increase in mortality for both males and females, which still remains essentially unexplained: to understand the extent of this phenomenon, it is worth noting that the standardized mortality rate for males in 1999–01 is equal to 13.92 per 10000 person-years, compared to a value of 6.96 for Italy in the 2000–2002 period. SN - 1476-072X UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1476-072X-8-40 DO - 10.1186/1476-072X-8-40 ID - Bilancia2009 ER -