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Ten years after mutation testing for Lynch syndrome: cancer incidence and outcome in mutation-positive and mutation-negative family members.
Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology - 1 Oct 2009
Järvinen Heikki J, Renkonen-Sinisalo Laura, Aktán-Collán Katja, Peltomäki Päivi, Aaltonen Lauri A, Mecklin Jukka-Pekka
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PURPOSE: Colonoscopies with polypectomies and endometrial biopsies with transvaginal ultrasonography, repeated at 2- to 3-year intervals, are performed for prevention or early detection of cancer in patients with DNA mismatch repair gene mutation causing Lynch syndrome. The long-term effectivenes...
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