## Abstract ## BACKGROUND Familial risks by proband status and age are useful for clinical counseling, and they can be used to calculate populationβattributable fractions (PAFs), which show the proportion of disease that could be prevented if the cause could be removed. ## METHODS The authors us
Familial prostate cancer from the Family-Cancer Database
β Scribed by K. Hemminki; C. Dong
- Book ID
- 117666909
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 99 KB
- Volume
- 36
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0959-8049
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