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Familial Colorectal Cancer Type X (FCCTX) and the correlation with various genes-A systematic review.
Current problems in cancer - 1 Jan 2000
Nejadtaghi Mahdieh, Jafari Hamideh, Farrokhi Effat, Samani Keihan Ghatreh
Abstract excerpt
Familial Colorectal Cancer Type X (FCCTX) is a type of hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer in accordance to Amsterdam criteria-1 for Lynch syndrome, with no related mutation in mismatch repair gene. FCCTX is microsatellite stable and is accounted for 40% of families with Amsterdam criteria-1 with a high age of onset. Thus, the carcinogenesis of FCCTX is different compared to Lynch syndrome. In addition to...
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