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Familial multiple primary lung cancers: a population-based analysis from Sweden.
Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands) - 1 Mar 2005
Li Xinjun, Hemminki Kari
Abstract excerpt
Multiple primary cancers arise because of inherited or acquired deficiencies, and their causes may depend on the first primary cancer, or they may be entirely independent. We used a nation-wide family dataset to search for evidence for a genetic predisposition to lung cancer. The Swedish Family-Cancer Database includes all Swedes born in 1932 and later with their parents, totalling over 10.2 million individuals....
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