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Cancer in first-degree relatives and risk of glioma in adults.
Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology - 1 Dec 2003
Hill Deirdre A, Inskip Peter D, Shapiro William R, Selker Robert G, Fine Howard A, Black Peter M, Linet Martha S
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Relatively few studies have examined glioma risk in relation to history of cancer in first-degree relatives. We sought to describe such risks in a large hospital-based case-control study. Histologically confirmed incident adult glioma cases (n = 489) were identified at three regional referral hospitals between June 1994 and August 1998. Controls (n = 799) admitted to the same hospitals for nonmalignant conditions...
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