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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2005 97(7):543-544; doi:10.1093/jnci/dji092
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© 2005 Oxford University Press

CORRESPONDENCE

Re: Familial Clustering of Hodgkin Lymphoma and Multiple Sclerosis

Ola Landgren, Kimberly F. Kerstann, Gloria Gridley, Lene Mellemkjaer, Kari Hemminki, Martha S. Linet, Lynn R. Goldin

Affiliations of authors: Genetic Epidemiology Branch (OL, KFK, LRG), Radiation Epidemiology Branch (MSL), and Biostatistics Branch (GG), Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD; Department of Biosciences at Novum, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden (KH); Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark (LM); Division of Molecular Genetic Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany (KH)

Correspondence to: Ola Landgren, MD, PhD, Genetic Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, 6120 Executive Blvd., Bethesda, MD (e-mail: landgreo@mail.nih.gov).

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We were intrigued by the recent report of Hjalgrim et al. (1) that showed familial clustering of multiple sclerosis and young-adult-onset Hodgkin lymphoma in Denmark and that supported Newell's 1970 hypothesis (2) of a shared etiology. Their study and another report by Vineis et al. (3) indicate a familial association between multiple sclerosis and non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Given the etiologic importance of these findings, we wanted to evaluate this association further in the larger population of Sweden. Because there is no national multiple sclerosis registry in Sweden, unlike the situation in . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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RESPONSE: Re: Familial Clustering of Hodgkin Lymphoma and Multiple Sclerosis
Henrik Hjalgrim, Klaus Rostgaard, Nete Munk Nielsen, Nils Koch-Henriksen, Lars Munksgaard, Hans H. Storm, and Mads Melbye
J Natl Cancer Inst 2005 97: 544-545. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]



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