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cancer family

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cancer family
n.
A group of blood relatives in which cancer has occurred. The cause may be genetic, as in familial cancer, or common exposure to a carcinogenic or oncogenic agent.


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Health beliefs, salience of breast cancer family history, and involvement with breast cancer issues: Adherence to annual mammography screening recommendations.
2 years of follow-up since the previous prostate cancer analysis, which provided 87 new prostate cancer cases with prostate cancer family history information, to see if the prostate cancer finding held.
Any woman who's worried should ask her doctor to refer to her a Cancer Family Clinic for advice.
 
 
 
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