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Familial associations between cancer sites.
Computers and biomedical research, an international journal - 1 Dec 1999
Thomas A, Cannon-Albright L, Bansal A, Skolnick M H
Abstract excerpt
The Utah Population Database links together genealogical records, the Utah Cancer Registry, and Utah death certificates and allows identification of cancer clusters. Groups of individuals with cancers of some types tend to fall into related clusters within the genealogy. We examine the apparent tendency of cases of two types of cancer to cluster together and distinguish real clusters from chance occurrences. Some...
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