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The French Wilms' tumour study: no clear evidence for cancer prone families.
Journal of medical genetics - 1 Jun 1994
Moutou C, Hochez J, Chompret A, Tournade M F, Le Bihan C, Zucker J M, Lemerle J, Bonaïti-Pellié C
Abstract excerpt
Wilms' tumour of the kidney is known to occur in Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome. It has also been described in four cancer prone families displaying Li-Fraumeni syndrome but it is not usually considered to be part of this syndrome. In order to detect particular familial cancer aggregations associated with this tumour, we studied the cancer incidence and mortality among relatives of the 501 Wilms' tumour patients in...
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