We use the population-based Family-Cancer Database from Sweden to study familial breast cancer. The size of the population and the nation-wide registration of cancer offer unique possibilities for epidemiological studies of familial cancer, including complete and unbiased identification of cases in
Familial cancer in the general population
β Scribed by Samuel Albert; Margaret Child
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1977
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 436 KB
- Volume
- 40
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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