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[Familial gastric cancer - an update of Japanese cases].
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy - 1 Feb 2013
Sugimura Haruhiko, Yamada Hidetaka, Tao Hong, Shinmura Kazuya, Iwaizumi Moriya, Kasami Masako
Abstract excerpt
Since the international gastric cancer linkage consortium first proposed screening criteria for the detection of CDH1 germline mutations in hereditary diffuse gastric cancer(HDGC), the low yields of previous attempts to identify patients with HDGC in Japan, where gastric cancer is endemic and mass screenings for it have been established, have made clinicians less enthusiastic about pursuing the genetic etiology...
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