Study finds that one third of children with a kidney tumor have hereditary predisposition

In a new study, researchers at the Princess Máxima Center for pediatric oncology in Utrecht, the Netherlands, mapped out hereditary information from all children diagnosed with a Wilms' tumor between 2015-2020. It's the first time that information on hereditary predisposition was collected together with clinical data in all children with a Wilms' tumor in a national cohort.

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