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Familial Associations Between Prostate Cancer and Other Cancers.
European urology - 1 Feb 2017
Frank Christoph, Sundquist Jan, Hemminki Akseli, Hemminki Kari
Abstract excerpt
Prostate cancer (PCa) has a large familial component, but understanding of its genetic basis is fragmentary. Breast cancers may be associated with PCa, but whether this is true for other tumor types is poorly established. We used a novel approach to study familial associations of any type of cancer with PCa. We assessed the relative risk (RR) for all types of tumors as a function of the number of first-degree...
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