Lack of association between screening interval and cancer stage in Lynch syndrome may be accounted for by over-diagnosis; a prospective Lynch syndrome database report

Lack of association between screening interval and cancer stage in Lynch syndrome may be accounted for by over-diagnosis; a prospective Lynch syndrome database report

Abstract Background Recent epidemiological evidence shows that colorectal cancer (CRC) continues to occur in carriers of pathogenic mismatch repair (path_MMR) variants despite frequent colonoscopy surveillance in expert centres. This observation conflicts with the paradigm that removal of all visibl...

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Main Authors: Toni T. Seppälä, Aysel Ahadova, Mev Dominguez-Valentin, Finlay Macrae, D. Gareth Evans, Christina Therkildsen, Julian Sampson, Rodney Scott, John Burn, Gabriela Möslein, Inge Bernstein, Elke Holinski-Feder, Kirsi Pylvänäinen, Laura Renkonen-Sinisalo, Anna Lepistö, Charlotte Kvist Lautrup, Annika Lindblom, John-Paul Plazzer, Ingrid Winship, Douglas Tjandra, Lior H. Katz, Stefan Aretz, Robert Hüneburg, Stefanie Holzapfel, Karl Heinimann, Adriana Della Valle, Florencia Neffa, Nathan Gluck, Wouter H. de Vos tot Nederveen Cappel, Hans Vasen, Monika Morak, Verena Steinke-Lange, Christoph Engel, Nils Rahner, Wolff Schmiegel, Deepak Vangala, Huw Thomas, Kate Green, Fiona Lalloo, Emma J. Crosbie, James Hill, Gabriel Capella, Marta Pineda, Matilde Navarro, Ignacio Blanco, Sanne ten Broeke, Maartje Nielsen, Ken Ljungmann, Sigve Nakken, Noralane Lindor, Ian Frayling, Eivind Hovig, Lone Sunde, Matthias Kloor, Jukka-Pekka Mecklin, Mette Kalager, Pål Møller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-02-01
Series:Hereditary Cancer in Clinical Practice
Subjects:
Mismatch repair
Microsatellite instability
Lynch syndrome
Hereditary cancer
Colorectal cancer
Hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13053-019-0106-8

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