Site-specific familial aggregation and evidence supporting Mendelian codominant inheritance have been shown in lung cancer. In characterizing lung cancer families, a number of other cancers have been observed. The current study evaluates whether first-degree relatives of early onset lung cancer case
Familial aggregation of colorectal cancer in Egypt
β Scribed by Amr S. Soliman; Melissa L. Bondy; Bernard Levin; Samy El-Badawy; Hussein Khaled; Ahmed Hablas; Sohair Ismail; Mostafa Adly; Khaled G. Mahgoub; R. Sue McPherson; R. Palmer Beasley
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- French
- Weight
- 74 KB
- Volume
- 77
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0020-7136
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