Familial prostate cancer from the Family-Cancer Database

European Journal of Cancer

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 229-234

  Hemminki, K ^a   Dong, C ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Age of onset; Familial risk; Heritable effect; Sibs; Skin cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; FAMILIAL CANCER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYELOMA; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SKIN CANCER;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; DATABASES; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; SWEDEN;

EID: 0033982210     PISSN: 09598049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-8049(99)00263-4     Document Type: Article

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