Clusters of Adolescent and Young Adult Thyroid Cancer in Florida Counties

<table>SaTScan purely spatial Poisson analysis for females, adjusted for age and race, for thyroid cancer in adolescents and young adults (AYA) 2000–2008. Primary cluster is shown in crosshatched label and contains the South Florida (SF) counties of Miami-Dade and Broward (relative risk = 1.25, <svg height="11.175" id="M22" style="vertical-align:-0.0pt" version="1.1" viewbox="0 0 10.9375 11.175" width="10.9375" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
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</svg> value &lt; 0.001). Secondary cluster is shown in simple hatched label and contains the northwest (NWF) county of Okaloosa (relative risk 1.88, <svg height="11.175" id="M23" style="vertical-align:-0.0pt" version="1.1" viewbox="0 0 10.9375 11.175" width="10.9375" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
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</svg> value = 0.003).</table>

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Figure 2: Clusters of Adolescent and Young Adult Thyroid Cancer in Florida Counties 