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Age specific and attributable risks of familial prostate carcinoma from the family-cancer database.
Cancer - 15 Sept 2002
Hemminki Kari, Czene Kamila
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Familial risks by proband status and age are useful for clinical counseling, and they can be used to calculate population-attributable fractions (PAFs), which show the proportion of disease that could be prevented if the cause could be removed. METHODS: The authors used the nationwide Swedish Family-Cancer Database on 10.2 million individuals and 182,104 fathers and 3710 sons with medically verified...
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