In recent years, several studies have explored the geospatial distribution of cancer incidence across the United States at state (Siegel et al., 2018) and county (Boscoe & Johnson, 2014;Farazi et al., 2018) levels of resolution, reflecting a growing recognition of the connections between geography and health. While these studies found statistically significant differences among states and regions, they did not attempt to relate those findings to environmental factors. Recently, studies have begun to analyze the relationship of cancer to various environmental agents such as pesticides (Leonel et al., 2020;Park et al., 2020;Werder et al., 2020). However, most of these studies focus on specific environmental agents and their relationship to specific cancer types such as brain tumors (
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