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Molecular basis and diagnostics of hereditary colorectal cancers.
Annals of medicine - 1 Jan 2004
Abdel-Rahman Wael M, Peltomäki Päivi
Abstract excerpt
Hereditary colorectal cancer syndromes are classified according to the presence of unusually large number of adenomatous or hamartomatous polyps, or their absence. The latter category includes hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer (Lynch syndrome) and its variants Muir-Torre and Turcot's syndromes. Adenomatous polyposis syndromes include familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) and its variants, and the recently...
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