Parental cancer as a risk factor for nine common childhood malignancies

The nationwide Swedish Family-Cancer Database was used to analyse childhood tumours among 8158 offspring by parental cancers. The results showed 2-fold familial increases for nervous system cancers and lymphomas, a 6.4-fold increase for endocrine tumours, a 60-fold increased risk for retinoblastomas...

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Autores principales: Hemminki, K, Mutanen, P
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2001
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2363828/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11286482
http://dx.doi.org/10.1054/bjoc.2000.1629
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Sumario:The nationwide Swedish Family-Cancer Database was used to analyse childhood tumours among 8158 offspring by parental cancers. The results showed 2-fold familial increases for nervous system cancers and lymphomas, a 6.4-fold increase for endocrine tumours, a 60-fold increased risk for retinoblastomas but no excess risk for leukaemia and Wilms tumour. © 2001 Cancer Research Campaign http://www.bjcancer.com

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