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Compliance and Satisfaction with Long-Term Surveillance in Finnish HNPCC Families.
Familial cancer - 1 Jan 2006
Pylvänäinen Kirsi, Kairaluoma Matti, Mecklin Jukka-Pekka
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OBJECTIVE: Nation-wide preventative colonoscopic surveillance for mutation carriers in HNPCC families has been organized since the early 1980 by the Finnish HNPCC registry. After characterization of MMR genes, a predisposing mutation has been verified in 111 HNPCC families and over 1500 family members at risk have been tested. The aim of this study was to evaluate the compliance and satisfaction of mutation...
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