Hodgkin disease following acute lymphocytic leukemia in a patient from a cancer-prone family: A case report
β Scribed by Horbar, Jeffrey D. ;Dickerman, Joseph D. ;Allen, Elizabeth F. ;Albertini, Richard J.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1981
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 298 KB
- Volume
- 9
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0098-1532
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β¦ Synopsis
Abstract
A person with acute lymphocytic leukemia who developed Hodgkin disease is described. His family had an excessive number of members with cancer. This paper describes various laboratory investigations, which were done in an attempt to elucidate certain host factors that might have been responsible for the increased incidence of cancer in this family.
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