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Synchronous occurrence of glioblastoma multiforme in a husband and wife

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Glioblastomas developed within two years of each other in an otherwise unrelated married couple in their fifties. There was a daughter who died of Hodgkin's disease but no other unusual incidence of cancer in either siblings, parents or other children. No clear etiology of risk factors for brain tumor were identified. The development of such conjugal tumors, although apparently rare, raises important etiologic questions.

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  1. Department of Medicine, Division of Oncology, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, 55 Lake Avenue, 01605, Worcester, MA

    Thomas W Griffin

  2. Department of Pathology, Division of Neuropathology, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, 55 Lake Avenue, 01605, Worcester, MA

    Thomas W Smith

  3. Occupational Health Service, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Masachusetts Medical Center, 55 Lake Avenue, 01605, Worcester, MA

    Barry S Levy

  4. Department of Neurology, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, 55 Lake Avenue, 01605, Worcester, MA

    Lawrence D Recht MD

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Griffin, T.W., Smith, T.W., Levy, B.S. et al. Synchronous occurrence of glioblastoma multiforme in a husband and wife. J Neuro-Oncol 4, 75–78 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02158006

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