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Familial risk of cancer by site and histopathology.
International journal of cancer - 1 Jan 2003
Hemminki Kari, Li Xinjun
Abstract excerpt
Familial risks for histopathology-specific cancers have not been determined. We used the nationwide Swedish Family-Cancer Database on 10.2 million individuals and 1 million tumors to calculate standardized incidence ratios (SIRs) for familial cancers of specific histology and morphology among 0- to 66-year-old offspring. We used histology codes for both offspring and parents, but because of the limited number of...
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