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Urinary Tract Cancer in Lynch Syndrome; Increased Risk in Carriers of MSH2 Mutations.
Urology - 1 Dec 2015
Joost Patrick, Therkildsen Christina, Dominguez-Valentin Mev, Jönsson Mats, Nilbert Mef
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OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the risk of urothelial cancer in the upper urinary tract and the bladder, determine the contribution from the different mismatch-repair genes, and define clinical characteristics of urothelial cancer in Lynch syndrome. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The national hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer registry was used to identify all 288 Lynch syndrome families in Denmark. Urothelial cancers...
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