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German national case collection for familial pancreatic cancer (FaPaCa): ten years experience.
Familial cancer - 1 Jun 2011
Schneider Ralph, Slater Emily P, Sina Mercede, Habbe Nils, Fendrich Volker, Matthäi Elvira, Langer Peter, Bartsch Detlef K
Abstract excerpt
Familial pancreatic cancer (FPC) is a rare hereditary tumor syndrome. The 10-years experience of the national case collection for familial pancreatic cancer of Germany (FaPaCa) is reported. Since 1999 FaPaCa has collected families with at least two first-degree relatives with confirmed pancreatic cancer (PC), who did not fulfill the criteria of other hereditary tumor syndromes. Histopathological verification of...
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