Mapping the Cancer Belt

Bad news: The Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Research Center has found that the Southeast is a "hot spot" for cancer. Recent research has determined that people living in the Southeastern "Cancer belt" have disproportionally high instances of brain cancer (Glioma) and lung cancer. Vanderbilt has subsequently launched a study to examine these "cancer clusters"

Worse news: Vanderbilt, located squarely in Nashville, TN, is smack in the middle of this so called "cancer belt."

As if the bible belt wasn't bad enough! I should have stayed in New York. Researchers aren't confused as to why Southerns have higher instances of lung cancer than people in other regions--but it is much harder to determine why people living in South are developing higher rates of other cancers.

Good luck, Vandy..and good luck, us!