Endometrial cancer in the family-cancer database

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1005-1010

  Hemminki, Kari ^a,b   Vaittinen, Pauli ^b   Dong, Chuanhui ^b  

^a CNT Novum   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER FAMILY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; COLORECTAL CANCER; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; FAMILIAL CANCER; FAMILY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SWEDEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE OF ONSET; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTRIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SWEDEN;

EID: 0032718555     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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