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Familial association of prostate cancer with other cancers in the Swedish Family-Cancer Database.
The Prostate - 1 Oct 2005
Hemminki Kari, Chen Bowang
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Familial associations between cancer sites may implicate true familial clustering which is relevant for the identification of new cancer syndromes and for clinical counseling. METHODS: We used the nation-wide Swedish Family-Cancer Database, containing 10,553 sons and 107,518 fathers with prostate cancer among a total of 170,000 cancer patients in the 0- to 70-year-old offspring generation and over...
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