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Quantification of familial risk of nasopharyngeal carcinoma in a high-incidence area.
Cancer - 15 Jul 2017
Liu Zhiwei, Chang Ellen T, Liu Qing, Cai Yonglin, Zhang Zhe, Chen Guomin, Huang Qi-Hong, Xie Shang-Hang, Cao Su-Mei, Shao Jian-Yong, Jia Wei-Hua, Zheng Yuming, Liao Jian, Chen Yufeng, Lin Longde, Liang Liming, Ernberg Ingemar, Vaughan Thomas L, Adami Hans-Olov, Huang Guangwu, Zeng Yi, Zeng Yi-Xin, Ye Weimin
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BACKGROUND: To the authors' knowledge, no studies to date have explored familial risks of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) in detail and quantified its lifetime risk in high-incidence populations. METHODS: The authors conducted a population-based case-control study of 2499 NPC cases and 2576 controls randomly selected in southern China from 2010 through 2014. Unconditional logistic regression was used to estimate...
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