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German national case collection of familial pancreatic cancer - clinical-genetic analysis of the first 21 families.
Onkologie - 1 Jun 2002
Rieder H, Sina-Frey M, Ziegler A, Hahn S A, Przypadlo E, Kress R, Gerdes B, Colombo Benkmann M, Eberl T, Grützmann R, Lörken M, Schmidt J, Bartsch D K
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BACKGROUND: The observation of a familial accumulation of ductal pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PC) and the increased risk for PC in certain hereditary tumor syndromes point to a genetic predisposition for PC. In order to evaluate the characteristics of familial PC, a German national case collection...
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