The relationship between breast cancer risk and family history of cancer in first-degree relatives was investigated using data from a multicentric case-control study conducted in Italy between June 1991 and April 1994 on 2,569 women aged less than 75 years, with histologically confirmed incident bre
Familial history of esophageal cancer
โ Scribed by PARVIZ Ghadirian
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1985
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 457 KB
- Volume
- 56
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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โฆ Synopsis
Several studies from different regions of the world reflect a positive family history of esophageal cancer among patients with the same disease. The all age-standardized rates for the Turkoman of northern Gonbad district in the Caspian Littoral of Iran is as high as 160-180, and truncated rates reach 300-400
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