Hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer: review of clinical, molecular genetics, and counseling aspects.

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Lynch syndrome, or hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer (HNPCC), is an autosomal-dominant disease accounting for approximately 1-5% of all colorectal cancer cases. Due to the lack of pathognomonic morphological or biomolecular markers, HNPCC has traditionally posed unique problems to clinicians and geneticists alike, both in terms of diagnosis and clinical management. Recently, novel insight into the pathogenesis...

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