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Increased cancer risk among relatives of nonsmoking lung cancer cases.
Genetic epidemiology - 1 Jan 1999
Schwartz A G, Rothrock M, Yang P, Swanson G M
Abstract excerpt
Lung cancer has been shown to aggregate in families of nonsmoking lung cancer cases with an earlier age at onset. The current study evaluates whether relatives of nonsmoking lung cancer cases are at increased risk of cancers at sites other than lung. Families were identified through 257 population-based, nonsmoking lung cancer cases and 277 population-based, nonsmoking controls residing in metropolitan Detroit....
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