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The familial risk of Hodgkin's lymphoma ranks among the highest in the Swedish Family-Cancer Database

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The Family-Cancer Database was created by linking registries maintained by Statistics Sweden and the Swedish Cancer Registry. This study was supported by the Deutsche Krebshilfe, the Swedish Cancer Society and the EU, LSHC-LT-2004-503465.

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  2. Center for Family Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Huddinge, Sweden

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Altieri, A., Hemminki, K. The familial risk of Hodgkin's lymphoma ranks among the highest in the Swedish Family-Cancer Database. Leukemia 20, 2062–2063 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.leu.2404378

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