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Familial breast and ovarian cancer: a Swedish population-based register study.
American journal of epidemiology - 15 Dec 2000
Anderson H, Bladström A, Olsson H, Möller T R
Abstract excerpt
A cohort of offspring of mothers with breast or ovarian cancer diagnosed in 1958-1993 was established using Swedish population-based registers. The children (n = 158,041) were born between 1941 and 1993, and their cancer incidence was followed between 1961 and 1993. A total of 3,257 tumors in 3,102 children were found. Observed numbers of cases were compared with expected numbers based on national calendar year-,...
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