Abstract
Spatial scan statistics can be instrumental in stimulating etiologic research by detecting specific disease clusters. Successful examples include the maps produced by the US National Cancer Institute in the 1970s, identifying areas of high mortality rates from nasal cancer associated with furniture-manufacturing industries, and oral cancer in regions where snuff use was common.1
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