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Article: Researcher shows aggregation of cancers in families of lung cancer patients.
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- Genomics & Genetics Weekly
- Article date:
- May 2, 2003
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2003 MAY 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Interim results of a large lung cancer case-control study suggest there is a genetic basis for development of lung cancer and other smoking-related cancers, say researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
The study, still ongoing, compared family histories of cancer in the immediate families of 806 lung cancer patients with that of a group of 663 control families, and provides indirect evidence that variation in individual susceptibility to smoking and cancer may be genetically determined.
Aggregation of cancer in families can be due to shared exposures, shared genes, or a combination of ...