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Familial and sporadic human renal cell carcinoma: evidence against a double-loss mechanism of carcinogenesis.
Journal of clinical epidemiology - 1 Jun 1995
Stein W D, Stein A D
Abstract excerpt
It has been speculated that renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is an example of a double-loss mutation. We analyzed the age distribution of 71 cases of familial RCC and of 11 population-based cancer registries [German Democratic Republic, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, U.S.A. Whites, U.S.A. Blacks, Miyagi and Osaka Prefectures (Japan), Hong Kong, and Israeli Jews] according to the multi-hit and clonal growth models of...
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