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Association between early-onset breast and laryngeal cancers.
Breast cancer research and treatment - 1 May 2006
Jaworowska Ewa, Masojć Bartłomiej, Tarnowska Czesława, Brzosko Marek, Fliciński Jacek, Serrano-Fernandez Pablo, Matyjasik Joanna, Amernik Katarzyna, Scott Rodney J, Lubiński Jan
Abstract excerpt
Recent studies suggest that there are groups of genes that predispose simultaneously to both early-onset breast and laryngeal cancer. Studies were performed on a large series of unselected patients with laryngeal cancer diagnosed in Szczecin, Poland. Pedigrees of 683 laryngeal cancer patients were analysed for the frequency of early-onset and late-onset breast cancer among first degree relatives. The observed...
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