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Fig. 1 | BMC Cancer

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From: Predominance of girls with cancer in families with multiple childhood cancer cases

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Diagnosis distribution of childhood cancer cases in a Lund Childhood Cancer Genetic (LCCG) study (grey)(n = 534) compared to the childhood cancer population in the Nordic countries [23] (white). The value in brackets represents the number of study patients in the LCCG-study with corresponding diagnosis. b Families with multiple childhood cancers (FAM > 1, n = 86 in 41 families) (grey) compared to families with one childhood cancer case (FAM1, n = 487) (white) in the LCCG-study. The value in brackets represents the number of study patients and relatives with corresponding diagnosis in FAM > 1. The higher number of leukemia cases and lower number CNS cases in the LCCG cohort compared to the general population were not significant after correction for multiple testing

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