Genetic Counseling and Surveillance Focused on Lynch Syndrome

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Lynch syndrome is a hereditary cancer syndrome caused by germline mutations in one of several DNA mismatch repair genes. Lynch syndrome leads to an increased lifetime risk of various cancers, particularly colorectal, and endometrial cancers. After identifying patients suspected of having Lynch syndrome by clinical criteria, computational prediction models, and/or universal tumor testing, genetic testing is...

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