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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Environmental and Public Health Volume 2012, Article ID 959343, 8 pages doi:10.1155/2012/959343 Research Article Spatial Analysis of County-Level Breast Cancer Mortality in Texas Arvind B. Bambhroliya,1 Keith D. Burau,2 and Ken Sexton3 1 Division of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Science, University of Texas School of Public Health, 1200 Herman Pressler, Houston, TX 77030, USA 2 Division of Biostatistics, University of Texas School of Public Health, 1200 Herman Pressler, Houston, TX 77030, USA 3 Division of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Science, University of Texas School of Public Health, Brownsville Regional Campus, 80 Fort Brown Road, RAHC, Brownsville, TX 78520, USA Correspondence should be addressed to Ken Sexton, ken.sexton@ Received 2 September 2011; Revised 25 October 2011; Accepted 25 October 2011 Academic Editor: Edward Trapido Copyright © 2012 Arvind B. Bambhroliya et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Objective. The objectives of the study were to detect high-risk areas and to examine how racial and ethnic status affect the geographic distribution of female breast cancer mortality in Texas. Analyses were based on county-level data for the years from 2000 to 2008. Materials and Methods. Breast cancer mortality data were obtained from the Texas Cancer Registry, and the Spatial Scan Statistics method was used to run Purely Spatial Analyses using the Discrete Poisson, Bernoulli, and Multinomial models. Results and Conclusions. Highest rates of female breast cancer mortality in