"You're certainly talking about tens of thousands of excess cases over a few weeks," City Health and Mental Hygiene Commissioner Thomas R. Frieden said.
Given the small number of highly exposed workers, it is unlikely that excess cases of thyroid cancer due to radiation exposure would be detectable.
The absolute risk to any one person is minute, but it translates into tens of thousands of excess cases of pneumonia in this country each year because of the drugs.
Suboptimal breastfeeding duration in the U.S. results in nearly 5,000 excess cases of breast cancer per year, nearly 14,000 excess heart attacks per year, and over 50,000 excess cases of high blood pressure per year.
Excess cases were calculated by subtracting expected from observed cases.
The idea is to separate the number of cases into expected and excess cases.
However, one major disadvantage is the occurrence of excess cases within the first year after immunization.
The total was small – only about 4 excess cases in each sex.
These brief outbreaks may lead to considerable outbreak response measures being deployed, despite minimal excess cases.
This corresponded to a 201 excess cases per 100 000 female cancer survivors.
Excess cases are also found for pancreatic and nonmelanoma skin tumours and for leukaemias.
