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Risk for incident and fatal prostate cancer in men with a family history of any incident and fatal cancer.
Annals of oncology : official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology - 1 Jan 2012
Brandt A, Sundquist J, Hemminki K
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Familial clustering of incident prostate cancer and some cancers at other discordant sites has been reported. Less is known about familial clustering of fatal prostate cancer with any fatal discordant cancers. Estimates on familial aggregation based on mortality are free from bias of overdiagnosis. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We used the nationwide Swedish Family-Cancer Database to calculate standardized...
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