Risks of Cancer among Members of Families in the Gilda Radner Familial Ovarian Cancer Registry

According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Cancer, "Background: Increasing scientific and public interest in hereditary cancer syndromes has created a need for estimates of lifetime cancer risks among members of families with such syndromes. Methods: Data from the Gilda Radner Familial Ovarian Cancer Registry were used to evaluate risk for cancers of the breast, cervix, uterus, colorectum, and prostate in members of 143 families containing three or more reported cases of ovarian cancer among first- or second-degree relatives. These risks were compared with those that were expected based on general population rates obtained from the Connecticut Tumor...

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