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Endometrial cancer in the family-cancer database.
Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology - 1 Nov 1999
Hemminki K, Vaittinen P, Dong C
Abstract excerpt
Endometrial cancer was studied in the Swedish Family-Cancer Database, updated in 1999 to cover individuals born after 1934 with their biological parents, totaling 9.6 million persons. Cancer data were obtained from the Swedish Cancer Registry from 1958 to 1996 and included over 20,000 cases of endometrial cancer. Seventy-six families were identified in which both the mother and the daughter had endometrial...
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