title: Cancer control by family history.
abstract: Family history can be used to identify persons at high cancer risk and to target appropriate preventive and therapeutic measures. First-degree female relatives of women with breast cancer (n = 600) are at increased risk for breast cancer (RR: 1.7.95% CI: 1.4-1.9). First-degree relatives of colorectal cancer patients (n = 184) are at increased risk for colorectal cancer (RR: 1.8.95% CI: 1.4-2.3). Families with hereditary cancer syndromes are identified. The family history approach can be used in every part of the world, and it should become a part of future cancer control activities.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Cancer Research Unit, Basel, Switzerland.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Weber
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000235:genetics*; D015179:Colorectal Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000235:genetics*; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008487:Medical History Taking; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000235:genetics*; D010375:Pedigree; D012307:Risk Factors