Article
Sex specific familial risk in lung cancer through changing histologies in Sweden.
International journal of cancer - 1 Sept 2025
Hemminki Kari, Zitricky Frantisek, Sundquist Kristina, Sundquist Jan, Försti Asta, Hemminki Akseli
Abstract excerpt
Familial clustering of lung cancer (LC) is related to shared smoking habits but the contribution of other potential factors such as sex or histology is not well known, and these are the subjects of the present study in Sweden. Family relationships (from Multigeneration register) and diagnosed cancers (from Cancer registry) were obtained from the national registers from 1961 to 2021. The overall familial risk for...
Topics
- Humans
- Sweden
- Lung Neoplasms
- Female
- Male
- Registries
- Middle Aged
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Aged
- Sex Factors
- Incidence
- Risk Factors
