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Attributable risks for familial breast cancer by proband status and morphology: a nationwide epidemiologic study from Sweden.
International journal of cancer - 10 Jul 2002
Hemminki Kari, Granström Charlotta, Czene Kamila
Abstract excerpt
Population attributable factions (PAFs) show the proportion of the disease that could be prevented if the cause could be removed. The PAF for familial breast cancer has not been precisely determined. We used the nationwide Swedish Family-Cancer Database on 10.2 million individuals and 190,000 mothers' and 26,000 daughters' breast cancers to calculate familial standardized incidence ratios (SIRs), proportion of...
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