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Modification of risk for subsequent cancer after female breast cancer by a family history of breast cancer.
Breast cancer research and treatment - 1 Sept 2008
Hemminki Kari, Zhang Hui, Sundquist Jan, Lorenzo Bermejo Justo
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An increased risk of second primary cancers may depend on many reasons, including therapy for the first cancer and heritable causation. Population level data are not available exploring the risks of subsequent cancers after breast cancer considering a familial history of breast cancers. We used the nation-wide Swedish Family-Cancer Database to investigate such risks, based on 43,398 first invasive female breast...
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