Article
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 associate...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Bone Neoplasms
- Brain Neoplasms
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Data Collection
- Family Health
- Female
- France
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Humans
- Incidence
- Infant
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Molecular Epidemiology