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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2005 97(21):1556-1557; doi:10.1093/jnci/dji386
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© 2005 Oxford University Press

EDITORIAL

Risks of Cancer and Families

Marvin Zelen

Correspondence to: Marvin Zelen, PhD, Harvard School of Public Health, 655 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA 02115 (e-mail: zelen@hsph.harvard.edu).

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A cluster of cancers diagnosed in families raises concern about family risk and the need for counseling. Because family members share similar genes or may have experienced common environmental challenges, it would not be surprising to find clusters of cancers in families. The investigation by Bermejo and Hemminki (1) raises some provocative questions regarding a family member being diagnosed with cancer and other family members later being diagnosed with the same cancer. Bermejo and Hemminki used the Swedish Family Cancer Database to explore the pattern of familial risk after diagnosis of the first cancer in a family. The main theme in the analysis was to determine if the first cancer . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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Re: Risks of Cancer and Families
Justo Lorenzo Bermejo and Kari Hemminki
J Natl Cancer Inst 2006 98: 563-564. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]



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J. L. Bermejo and K. Hemminki
Re: Risks of cancer and families.
J Natl Cancer Inst, April 19, 2006; 98(8): 563 - 564.
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