Article
[Diagnosis and treatment of Lynch syndrome].
Duodecim; laaketieteellinen aikakauskirja - 1 Jan 2016
Seppälä Toni, Pylvänäinen Kirsi, Renkonen-Sinisalo Laura, Böhm Jan, Kuopio Teijo, Järvinen Heikki J, Mecklin Jukka-Pekka
Abstract excerpt
Lynch syndrome (LS) refers to an autosomal dominant genetic predisposition to develop colon cancer or cancers or the uterine corpus, stomach, urinary tract, ovaries, small intestine, mammary gland or bile ducts at a young age. The predisposition to cancer is caused by a germline mutation in one of the genes of the mismatch repair (MMR) system. International recommendations suggest immunohistochemical analysis of...
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