Clustering of concordant and discordant cancer types in Swedish couples is rare

European Journal of Cancer

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 98-106

  Weires, Marianne ^a   Bermejo, Justo Lorenzo ^a,b   Sundquist, Jan ^c,d   Hemminki, Kari ^a,c  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental factors; Population attributable fractions; Spouse couples; Standardised incidence ratios; Swedish Family Cancer Database

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; COLON CANCER; CONNECTIVE TISSUE TUMOR; ENDOCRINE TUMOR; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; EYE CANCER; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT CANCER; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LEUKEMIA; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MALE; MELANOMA; MYELOMA; NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OVARY CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; POPULATION AND POPULATION RELATED PHENOMENA; POPULATION ATTRIBUTABLE FRACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RECTUM CANCER; RESPIRATORY TRACT CANCER; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN CANCER; SMALL INTESTINE CANCER; SMOKING; SPOUSE; STOMACH CANCER; SWEDEN; TESTIS CANCER; THYROID CANCER; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERUS CANCER;

ADULT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SPOUSES; SWEDEN;

EID: 78650413966     PISSN: 09598049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejca.2010.06.125     Document Type: Article

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