Article
Risk of Cancer in Relatives of Prostate Cancer Probands
5 Jul 1995
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: It is estimated that there will be more than 244,000 new prostate cancer cases diagnosed and that more than 40,000 men will die of this disease during 1995. Evidence exists for a hereditary predisposition to prostate cancer, but the proportion of cases attributable to the inheritance of a specific gene or genes is not large. Some hereditary cancer syndromes involve more than one tumor site, and some...
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