Therapeutic and prophylactic gastrectomy in a family with hereditary diffuse gastric cancer secondary to a CDH1 mutation: a case series

BACKGROUND: Gastric cancer is the fifth most prevalent and the third most lethal cancer worldwide, causing approximately 720,000 deaths annually. Although most cases of gastric cancers are sporadic, one of its inherited forms, hereditary diffuse gastric cancer (HDGC), constitutes about 1–3% of cases...

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Autores principales: Gjyshi, Olsi, Vashi, Pankaj, Seewald, Laura, Kohan, Mitra, Abboud, Elham, Fowler, Eric, Suppiah, Revathi, Halabi, Hatem
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6046101/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30007404
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12957-018-1415-5

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6046101/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30007404
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12957-018-1415-5

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