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. 2009 May 29;4(5):e5588. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005588

Table 1. Characteristics of parent-child, sibling and spouse pairs with primary lung cancer diagnosed in Sweden.

Pairs of relatives	Pairs with lung cancer	Concordant alive	Concordant dead
All lung cancer
Parent^a-Child^b	439	32	256
Sibling-Sibling^b	63	13	30
Spouse-Spouse^a	525	39	301
Non-small cell lung cancer
Parent^a-Child^b	358	28	205
Sibling-Sibling^b	49	12	18
Spouse-Spouse^a	414	30	244

^a

Parents (Spouses) diagnosed between January 1961 and December 2001.

^b

Children (siblings) diagnosed between January 1991 and December 2001.