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Familial risks for eye melanoma and retinoblastoma: results from the Swedish Family-Cancer Database.

Melanoma research - 1 Apr 2006

Hemminki Kari, Chen Bowang

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No systematic population-based studies have been conducted on familial eye cancers. Reliable data on familial risks are important for clinical counselling and cancer genetics. The current analysis was based on the nation-wide Swedish Family-Cancer Database on 10.5 million individuals, containing families with parents and offspring. Cancer data were retrieved from the Swedish Cancer Registry from the years 1958 to...

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PMID: 16567975
DOI: 10.1097/01.cmr.0000198453.11580.7b

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