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This paper reports the occurrence of renal cell carcinoma, hepatoma and malignant hepatic mixed tumor in a 22-year-old male with ataxiatelangiectasia (AT). Incidence of various malignant neoplasms is high in the patients with AT. The majority of these are lymphoreticular tumors and leukemia, and epithelial tumors are rare. This report is the first case with renal cell carcinoma and the second with hepatoma. The reason for a low incidence of epithelial tumors in AT is still obscure. It is possible that as the result of abnormal aging the tumors expected in the aged will occur in longer survivors with AT.
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Yoshitomi, F., Zaitsu, Y. & Tanaka, K. Ataxia-telangiectasia with renal cell carcinoma and hepatoma. Virchows Arch. A Path. Anat. and Histol. 389, 119–125 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00428672
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