Fertility among brothers of patients with testicular cancer

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 14, Issue 11 I, 2005, Pages 2557-2562

  Richiardi, Lorenzo ^a   Akre, Olof ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER REGISTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FATHER; FEMALE; GERM CELL TUMOR; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; REPRODUCTION; SUBFERTILITY; SWEDEN; TWINS;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INFERTILITY, MALE; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; ODDS RATIO; SIBLINGS; SWEDEN; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 28644433647     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-05-0409     Document Type: Article

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