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The Swedish Family-Cancer Database 2009: prospects for histology-specific and immigrant studies.
International journal of cancer - 15 May 2010
Hemminki Kari, Ji Jianguang, Brandt Andreas, Mousavi Seyed Mohsen, Sundquist Jan
Abstract excerpt
The Swedish Family-Cancer Database comprises a total of 11.8 million individuals covering the Swedish population of the past 100 years. Version VIII of the Database is described in the present article. Cancer cases were retrieved from the Swedish Cancer Registry for the period 1958-2006, including more than 1 million first primary cancers. The number of familial cancers in offspring is 14,000 when a parent was...
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