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Search for familial clustering of multiple myeloma with any cancer.
Leukemia - 1 Mar 2016
Frank C, Fallah M, Chen T, Mai E K, Sundquist J, Försti A, Hemminki K
Abstract excerpt
Multiple myeloma (MM) is a disease of immunoglobulin-producing plasma cells, which reside mainly in the bone marrow. Family members of MM patients are at a risk of MM, but whether other malignancies are in excess in family members is not established and is the aim of this study. MM patients (24 137) were identified from the Swedish Cancer Registry from years 1958 to 2012. Relative risks (RRs) were calculated for...
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