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Risk of ovarian cancer in women with first-degree relatives with cancer.
Acta obstetricia et gynecologica Scandinavica - 1 Jan 2009
Soegaard Marie, Frederiksen Kirsten, Jensen Allan, Høgdall Estrid, Høgdall Claus, Blaakaer Jan, Ramus Susan J, Gayther Simon A, Kjaer Susanne K
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OBJECTIVE: To assess the risk of ovarian cancer in women with first-degree relatives with cancer at one of the four most frequent hereditary sites based on validated cancer diagnoses and to examine the association according to age at diagnosis of ovarian cancer and histology. DESIGN: Case-control study. SETTING AND POPULATION: First-degree relatives of 554 women with invasive epithelial ovarian cancer and 1,564...
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