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American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 108, No. 5: 373-376
Copyright © 1978 by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health

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NONCANCER DEATHS IN CANCER AND NONCANCER LINEAGES

S. ALBERT1,, M. A. CHILD2 and S. BELLE1

1 Michigan Cancer Foundation Detroit, MI
2 Emory University Atlanta, GA

Requests for reprints should be sent to Dr. Samuel Albert, Michigan Cancer Foundation, 110 East Warren Avenue, Detroit, MI 48201.

Starting with white probands who were potential milk donors in a program of human milk collection, a series of 2411 family health histories were obtained of the first degree relatives of the probands' parents. A lineage Is defined as the parents and siblings of a parent of the proband as well as the parent. 2090 cancers were identified in the 31, 939 people. Of the 21, 712 persons without cancer in the parents' generation, age-specific death rates were significantly higher in those lineages with at least one cancer. This was true in infants, children and adults for both males and females (p < 0.001). Cancer may be linked to other morbid conditions by a commonality of heredity, family environment, or perhaps both as necessary antecedents, —neither sufficient by itself.

carcinogenesis; family; mortality; neoplasms


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