Prophylactic gastrectomy for CDH1 mutation carriers.

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Gastric cancer is difficult to diagnose at an early stage. Signs and symptoms of the disease often only occur when advanced or metastatic disease is present. A very small number of gastric cancers are hereditary. The mutation to the E-cadherin gene has high penetrance and confers a lifetime risk of gastric cancer of 80% for carriers. Because of the high penetrance of the mutation and the difficulty of diagnosing...

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