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Survival in familial colorectal cancer: a Danish cohort study.
Familial cancer - 1 Dec 2015
Lautrup Charlotte Kvist, Mikkelsen Ellen M, Lash Timothy L, Katballe Niels, Sunde Lone
Abstract excerpt
The monogenic Lynch syndrome (LS) is associated with better survival in colorectal cancer (CRC) patients. Whether family history of CRC affects CRC prognosis in general remains unclear. We evaluated overall mortality in a Danish cohort of CRC patients comparing patients with a family history (FHpos) to those without (FHneg) with focus on patients from non-syndromic families, thus FHpos patients were further...
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