The Search for Unaffected Individuals with Lynch Syndrome: Do the Ends Justify the Means?
- 1 January 2011
- journal article
- Published by American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) in Cancer Prevention Research
- Vol. 4 (1) , 1-5
- https://doi.org/10.1158/1940-6207.capr-10-0345
Abstract
Lynch syndrome is the most common cause of inherited colorectal and endometrial cancers yet it is underrecognized in clinical practice. The relative merits of screening for Lynch syndrome among healthy adults without cancer versus among adults with colorectal or endometrial cancer are discussed in this Perspective article. Newly diagnosed colorectal cancer patients are a much easier target population for screening and this approach leads to more informative genetic test results, at a lower cost in most cases. Cancer Prev Res; 4(1); 1–5. ©2011 AACR.Keywords
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