[Lynch syndrome: when pathologist and clinician have the opportunity to reduce the risk of developing cancer].

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Lynch syndrome is an autosomal dominant disease associated with an important risk of cancer, mainly endometrial and colorectal-cancer. This risk can be efficiently lessen by an appropriate screening as far as the mutations carriers are identified. As current clinicopathological recommendations lack sensitivity, a systematic pre-screening of every patient with a colorectal or endometrial cancer can be proposed....

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