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Can we identify the high-risk patients to be screened? A genetic approach.
Digestion - 1 Jan 2007
Gammon Amanda, Kohlmann Wendy, Burt Randall
Abstract excerpt
Our understanding of the mechanisms that lead to colorectal cancer expands each year. Patients with a genetic predisposition to colorectal cancer have significantly increased risks for developing this malignancy over their lifetime. These risks can approach an 80 to nearly 100% likelihood of colorectal malignancy with some of the known cancer predisposition syndromes [Burt and Neklason: Gastroenterology...
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