Article
[Epidemiology of familial prostatic cancer: 4-year assessment of French studies].
Progres en urologie : journal de l'Association francaise d'urologie et de la Societe francaise d'urologie - 1 Sept 1999
Valeri A, Drelon E, Azzouzi R, Delannoy A, Teillac P, Fournier G, Mangin P, Berthon P, Cussenot O
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: (1) To determine the frequency of familial (at least 2 cases) and hereditary forms of prostate cancer (CaP), (2) to define the results according to the patient's age at diagnosis, as various epidemiological studies have demonstrated a possible familial aggregation of CaP in about 15 to 25% of cases. Carter's familial segregation study (P.N.A.S. 1992, 89, 3367-71) showed that a genetic predisposition,...
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