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Familial cancer diagnosis.
Anticancer research - 1 Jan 2000
Weber W, Estoppey J, Stoll H
Abstract excerpt
Familial clustering of cancer is well known from epidemiologic studies. This can be due to chance, shared environmental influences, shared genes and chance-environmental-genetic interactions. Family studies are a key to the understanding of the environmental and genetic etiology of chronic disease. Cancer families are human models of susceptibility to neoplasia. More and more people are aware of, and anxious...
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