Familial transmission of prostate, breast and colorectal cancer in adoptees is related to cancer in biological but not in adoptive parents: A nationwide family study.

Summary, in English

Familial clustering of prostate, breast and colorectal cancer is well established, but the familial risk of these cancers has not been determined among adoptees. The aim was to disentangle the contributions of genetic and environmental factors to the familial transmission of prostate, breast and colorectal cancer.

• Författare: Bengt Zöller; Xinjun Li; Jan Sundquist; Kristina Sundquist
• Avdelning/ar: Allmänmedicin och klinisk epidemiologi; Allmänmedicin, kardiovaskulär epidemiologi och levnadsvanor; EpiHealth: Epidemiology for Health
• Publiceringsår: 2014
• Språk: Engelska
• Sidor: 2319-2327
• Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie: European Journal of Cancer
• Volym: 50
• Issue: 13
• Länkar: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24953336?dopt=Abstract; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejca.2014.05.018
• Dokumenttyp: Artikel i tidskrift
• Förlag: Elsevier
• Ämne: Cancer and Oncology
• Status: Published
• Forskningsgrupp: Family Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology; Family Medicine, Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Lifestyle
• ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt: ISSN: 1879-0852