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Endometrial cancer patients and compliance with genetic counseling: room for improvement.
Gynecologic oncology - 1 Dec 2011
Backes Floor J, Mitchell Elizabeth, Hampel Heather, Cohn David E
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INTRODUCTION: Immunohistochemistry (IHC) for the presence or absence of DNA mismatch repair (MMR) proteins in tumor samples is a quick and relatively inexpensive method to screen for Lynch syndrome (LS). At our institution we have found that >20% of patients lack expression of MMR proteins and >1...
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