Open AccessFamilial Predisposition for Salivary Gland Cancer in Finland
Author(s) -
Katri Aro,
Tuomas Klockars,
llmo Leivo,
Antti Mäkitie
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
clinical medicine insights ear nose and throat
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1179-5506
DOI - 10.4137/cment.s13770
Subject(s) - genetic predisposition , medicine , cancer , founder effect , head and neck cancer , head and neck , population , salivary gland , family aggregation , pathology , oncology , genetics , surgery , gene , genotype , biology , disease , environmental health , haplotype
Salivary gland cancer (SGC) accounts for 3-5% of head and neck malignancies, and register-based studies estimate the familial proportion to be 0.15%.
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