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To subscribe, E-mail the words . . The selected 593 dumps are located in 339 counties in 49 states. The study team used National Cancer Institute data on deaths among white males and females, 1970-1979, for 13 types of cancers to make the comparisons. The excess cancers became apparent when the Superfund counties were compared to all non-Superfund counties, nationwide. The study team then looked at geographical regions to see if they could identify a national patterns of disease.