Familial gastrointestinal carcinoid tumours and associated cancers
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Familial gastrointestinal carcinoid tumours and associated cancers.
BACKGROUND Carcinoid tumours are neuroendocrine neoplasms mainly located in the gastrointestinal tract and bronchopulmonary system. Our study's aim was to characterise the familial nature of gastrointestinal carcinoid tumours using the Swedish Family-Cancer Database, which includes >11.5 million individuals. METHODS Familial relative risks (RRs) of carcinoid tumours were estimated for individ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Oncology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0923-7534
DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdn706