Screening for cancer susceptibility in children.

doi:10.1097/00008480-199402000-00009

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Screening for cancer susceptibility in children.

Current opinion in pediatrics - 1 Feb 1994

Malkin D, Friend S H

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Epidemiologic studies have demonstrated that virtually every form of human cancer may aggregate in families. Genetic susceptibility plays an important role in the development of many of these cancers, yet until very recently genes associated with this susceptibility had not been identified. Over...

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Child
Genetic Predisposition to Disease
Genetic Testing
Humans
Neoplasms

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