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Risk of gastric cancer in hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer in Korea.
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research - 1 Aug 2000
Park Y J, Shin K H, Park J G
Abstract excerpt
After endometrial cancer, gastric cancer is the second most common extracolonic cancer in cases of hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC), where the relative risk in HNPCC familial members is known to be 4-fold. However, it is not yet clear whether HNPCC families from Korea, an endemic area for gastric cancer, have the same relative risk or whether the incidence of gastric cancer is high enough to...
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