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Attributable risks of familial cancer from the Family-Cancer Database.
Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology - 1 Dec 2002
Hemminki Kari, Czene Kamila
Abstract excerpt
Population attributable faction (PAF) shows the proportion of the disease that could be prevented if the cause could be removed. PAFs for most types of familial cancer have not been determined. We used the Swedish Family-Cancer Database on 10.2 million individuals and 688,537 parental and 116,741 offspring cancers to calculate familial risks, proportions of affected individuals, and familial PAFs for 28 neoplasms...
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