Familial risk of cancer by site and histopathology.

doi:10.1002/ijc.10764

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Familial risk of cancer by site and histopathology.

International journal of cancer - 1 Jan 2003

Hemminki Kari, Li Xinjun

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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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Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Child
Child, Preschool
Female
Genetic Predisposition to Disease
Humans
Incidence
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Male
Middle Aged
Neoplasms
Pedigree
Registries
Risk Factors
Sweden

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PMID: 12455061
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.10764

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