Screening for Lynch syndrome using risk assessment criteria in patients with ovarian cancer

OBJECTIVE: Lynch syndrome is a cancer predisposition syndrome caused by germline mutation of DNA mismatch repair (MMR) genes. Lynch syndrome only causes about 0.4% of cases of ovarian cancer, which suggests that universal screening may not be cost-efficient. However, the frequency of Lynch syndrome...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Takeda, Takashi, Tsuji, Kosuke, Banno, Kouji, Yanokura, Megumi, Kobayashi, Yusuke, Tominaga, Eiichiro, Aoki, Daisuke
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Asian Society of Gynecologic Oncology; Korean Society of Gynecologic Oncology 2018
Materias:
Original Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5920216/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29400022
http://dx.doi.org/10.3802/jgo.2018.29.e29

Ejemplares similares

Ejemplares similares