The Swedish Family-Cancer Database 2009: Prospects for histology-specific and immigrant studies

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 126, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2259-2267

  Hemminki, Kari ^a,b,c   Ji, Jianguang ^b   Brandt, Andreas ^a   Mousavi, Seyed Mohsen ^a   Sundquist, Jan ^b,d  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Familial cancers; Genes; Heritable cancer; Histology; Immigrants

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; DATA BASE; FAMILIAL CANCER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INTERPHASE; MELANOMA; MORPHOLOGY; MYELOMA; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PUBLICATION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SIBLING; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; INCIDENCE; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MIGRATION; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NEOPLASM; ONSET AGE; PATHOLOGY; REGISTER; RISK; STATISTICS; SWEDEN; TESTIS TUMOR; THYROID TUMOR;

AGE OF ONSET; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATABASES, FACTUAL; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; MELANOMA; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NEOPLASMS; REGISTRIES; RISK; SWEDEN; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77951219679     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: 10970215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.24795     Document Type: Review

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