Is HNPCC Surveillance Too Intensive and Costly? High Risk Familial Colorectal Cancer in IrelandPublication » Is HNPCC Surveillance Too Intensive and Costly? High Risk Familial Colorectal Cancer in Ireland.doi:10.1016/j.gie.2006.03.492Mosby, Inc.Gastrointestinal Endoscopy...
The 31-year-old son carrying the pathogenic mutation refused to be included in the HNPCC surveillance program. One year later he presented with symptoms of bowel obstruction, and a carcinoma of the descending colon was diagnosed. Intraoperatively, in addition to the colon cancer, a small bowel ...
SurveillanceIn this study we present an Austrian family with HNPCC , which was diagnosed by clinical criteria (Amsterdam I). Subsequent to the diagnosis, genetic counselling and testing was offered to all family members. A causal mutation was detected in exon 12 of the MLH1 gene by determining ...
Postsurgical surveillance of colon cancer: preliminary cost analysis of physician examination, carcinoembryonic antigen testing, chest x-ray, and colonoscopy. This study is the first to examine the relative and absolute costs of physician examination, carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) assessment, chest x-ray...
Section > Chapter Fujita, S.; Moriya, Y.; Sugihara, K.; Akasu, T.; Ushio, K. Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology 26(5): 351-355 1996 ISSN/ISBN:0368-2811 8895676 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jjco.a023244 009253491 Download citation:
Hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancerHNPCC family membersBackground: Surveillance in hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) family members recommends baseline colonoscopy starting at age 20 and then surveillance colonoscopy every 1-2 years. Aims: To verify adherence to the guidelines for ...
Excluding 11 probands, 106 family members were evaluated and 40 underwent surveillance. At baseline colonoscopy, 7 colorectal cancers (CRC), 14 polyps (PO) [1 inflammatory, 2 hyperplastic, 10 adenomas with low grade dysplasia (LGD-AD) and 1 adenoma with high-grade dysplasia (HGD-AD)] were ...
Hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal carcinoma (HNPCC) and HNPCC-like families: Problems in diagnosis, surveillance, and management. Cancer 2004; 100: 53-64H Lynch,B Riley,S Weismann,S Coronel,Y Kinarsky,J Lynch,T Shaw,W Rubinstein.Hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal carcinoma (HNPCC) and HNPCC-...
surveillanceAmong the well known syndromes of inherited predisposition to tumours manifesting with CRC, syndromes showing a Mendelian pattern of inheritance include: hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC, Lynch syndrome), familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP), Gardner, Turcot and Peutz-Jeghers ...
Weber T (1996) Clinical surveillance recommendations adopt- ed for HNPCC. Lancet 348:465WEBER, T. (1996). Clinical surveillance recommendations adopted for HNPCC. Lancet 348, 465.Weber T. Clinical surveillance recommendations adopted for HNPCC. Lancet 1996;348:465....