Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations
Volume 28, Issue 5 , Page 465 , September 2010

Understanding the agreement of histology of familial testicular tumors

  • Hao Liu

      Affiliations

    • Division of Molecular Genetic Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
    • ,
  • Jan Sundquist

      Affiliations

    • Centers for Primary Health Care Research, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
    • Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, California, USA
    • ,
  • Kari Hemminki

      Affiliations

    • Division of Molecular Genetic Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
    • Centers for Primary Health Care Research, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
    • Centers for Family and Community Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Huddinge, Sweden

References 

  1. Mai PL, Friedlander M, Tucker K, et al. The International Testicular Cancer Linkage Consortium: A clinicopathologic descriptive analysis of 461 familial malignant testicular germ cell tumor kindred. Urol Oncol. 2009;[Epub ahead of print]
  2. Bray F, Richiardi L, Ekbom A, et al. Do testicular seminoma and nonseminoma share the same etiology? Evidence from an age-period-cohort analysis of incidence trends in eight European countries. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2006;15:652–658
  3. Hemminki K, Ji J, Brandt A, et al. The Swedish family-cancer database 2009: Prospects for histology-specific and immigrant studies. Int J Cancer. 2009;Published on July 29, 2009; [Epub ahead of print]
  4. Hemminki K, Li X. Familial risk in testicular cancer as a clue to a heritable and environmental etiology. Brit J Cancer. 2004;90:1765–1770
  5. Czene K, Lichtenstein P, Hemminki K. Environmental and heritable causes of cancer among 9.6 million individuals in the Swedish Family-Cancer Database. Int J cancer. 2002;99:260–266

PII: S1078-1439(09)00420-7

doi: 10.1016/j.urolonc.2009.12.010

Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations
Volume 28, Issue 5 , Page 465 , September 2010

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