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Increased Risk of Acute Myelogenous Leukemia After Early Onset but Not Late-Onset Colorectal Cancer.
American journal of clinical oncology - 1 Apr 2020
Lehrer Steven, Rheinstein Peter H
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BACKGROUND: Early onset colorectal cancer in persons younger than 50 years is increasingly common. Clinical and molecular characterizations reveal a distinctive disease. Thirty percent of patients have mutations of hereditary cancer syndromes, especially Lynch syndrome. A recent analysis, testing germline DNA for mutations in 25 cancer susceptibility genes, showed that some patients younger than 50 years had...
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