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A familial cancer syndrome is reported in which a high incidence of colonic and female genital tract cancers occur at unusually early ages in the absence of polyps and other predisposing factors. A family is reported and the literature reviewed.
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Boland, C.R. Cancer family syndrome. Digest Dis Sci 23, S25–S27 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01072482
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