A lower risk of dying from urological cancer in Down syndrome: clue for cancer protecting genes on chromosome 21.

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OBJECTIVE: It was the aim of this study to evaluate the risk of dying from bladder and kidney cancer in persons with Down syndrome (DS), as compared with the general population. METHODS: Using data of the French national mortality statistics (INSERM) during a 21-year period, 1979-1999, we compared the observed number of deaths from renal and bladder cancer in DS subjects with the expected number of deaths from...

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