Bonaïti-Pellié C, Chompret A, Tournade M F, Zucker J M, Lemerle J
Unité de recherches de génétique épidémiologique (INSERM U.155), Bois de Boulogne, Paris.
Bull Cancer. 1988;75(1):131-3.
Preliminary results of genetic and epidemiological study of Wilms' tumor in France are given in this paper. The higher age at diagnosis in unilateral than in bilateral cases supports the bimutational theory of Knudson. The excess of cancer deaths found in relatives of patients might be due to genetic non specific factors of susceptibility to cancer.
