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Cancer Risk Factors

Nonmedullary thyroid cancer associated with familial risks

According to recent research published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, "Reliable data on familial risks are important for clinical counseling and cancer genetics. We wanted to define familial risks for histopathology-specific nonmedullary thyroid cancers through parental and sibling probands. The study examines the nationwide Swedish Family-Cancer Database on 10.5 million individuals, containing families with parents and offspring. Cancer data were retrieved from the Swedish Cancer Registry from years 1958 to 2002, including 3292 patients with thyroid adenocarcinoma."

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