Cancer Risk Factors in Southern Brazil: Report of a Comprehensive, Matched Case-Control Study
Juliana Giacomazzi,
Patricia Klarmann Ziegelmann,
Samanta da Costa
et al.
Abstract:PURPOSE To evaluate cancer risk factors among cancer cases and controls from Southern Brazil, to analyze a multigene hereditary panel testing (MGPT, 26 genes) for breast cancer (BC) and colorectal cancer (CCR) cases diagnosed age younger than 50 years and to characterize them for hereditary cancer syndrome (HCS) phenotypes. METHODS A case-control (matched by age group and sex) study was conducted on regional cancer. Data on exposure factors and first-/second-degree family history of cancer (1/2FHC) were collec… Show more
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