Article
Hereditary Diffuse Gastric Cancer: Approaches to Screening, Surveillance, and Treatment.
Annual review of medicine - 27 Jan 2021
Pilonis Nastazja Dagny, Tischkowitz Marc, Fitzgerald Rebecca C, di Pietro Massimiliano
Abstract excerpt
Hereditary diffuse gastric cancer (HDGC) is a cancer syndrome associated with a significant lifetime risk of diffuse gastric cancer (DGC), a malignancy characterized by late clinical presentation and poor prognosis, as well as lobular breast cancer. HDGC is linked to germline pathogenic variants in the E-cadherin gene (CDH1) that are inherited in an autosomal dominant pattern; however, in many families with DGC...
Topics
- Combined Modality Therapy
- Early Detection of Cancer
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Humans
- Stomach Neoplasms
