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Familial concordance in cancer survival: a Swedish population-based study.
The Lancet. Oncology - 1 Nov 2007
Lindström Linda S, Hall Per, Hartman Mikael, Wiklund Fredrik, Grönberg Henrik, Czene Kamila
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Nowadays, the fact that cancers can aggregate in families is generally accepted. The aim of this study was to complete a comprehensive analysis of cancer-survival concordance in parents and their children diagnosed with the same cancer. METHODS: We used a population-based Swedish family database, that included about three million families and data for more than a million individuals with cancer. We...
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