Environmental and heritable causes of cancer among 9.6 million individuals in the Swedish Family-Cancer Database

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 260-266

  Czene, Kamila ^a   Lichtenstein, Paul ^a   Hemminki, Kari ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cancer modeling; Familial cancer; Genetic epidemiology; Heredity; Liability; Sweden

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CHILD; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENDOCRINE TUMOR; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FAMILIAL CANCER; FEMALE; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INFANT; KIDNEY CANCER; LEUKEMIA; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CANCER; RISK ASSESSMENT; STOMACH CANCER; SWEDEN; TESTIS CANCER; THYROID CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; DATABASES; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA; MALE; NEOPLASMS; REGISTRIES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SWEDEN; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; THYROID NEOPLASMS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0037052644     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.10332     Document Type: Article

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