Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma and Family History of Hematologic Malignancy
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Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and family history of hematologic malignancy.
Familial aggregation of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and the co-occurrence of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and other hematologic malignancies within families, provide evidence for genetic or common environmental etiologies for these conditions. The authors analyzed the association between non-Hodgkin's lymphoma risk and family history of hematologic malignancy using a case-control study based in the Unite...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0002-9262,1476-6256
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwj361