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Family history and the risk of gastric cancer.
British journal of cancer - 19 Jan 2010
Yaghoobi M, Bijarchi R, Narod S A
Abstract excerpt
Both environmental and genetic factors have a role in the aetiology of gastric cancer. The nature of the genetic factors has not been well-studied and, outside of a few rare cancer syndromes, the genes involved have not been identified. Having a first-degree relative with gastric cancer is a consistent risk factor for gastric cancer, although the magnitude of the odds ratio (OR) associated with a positive family...
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