Does a new model improve decisions about mismatch-repair genetic testing and Lynch syndrome identification?: Commentary

Nature Clinical Practice Oncology

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 656-657

  Roukos, Dimitrios H ^a   Fatouros, Michael ^a   Tsianos, Epameinondas ^a   Kappas, Angelos M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; MISMATCH REPAIR PROTEIN PMS2; PROTEIN MLH1; PROTEIN MSH2; PROTEIN MSH6;

AGE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLON RESECTION; COLORECTAL CANCER; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FAMILIAL CANCER; FAMILY HISTORY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOTYPE; GERM LINE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INDIVIDUALIZATION; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; MISMATCH REPAIR; MODEL; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCTOCOLECTOMY; RELATIVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHORT SURVEY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 33751580491     PISSN: 17434254     EISSN: 17434262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncponc0665     Document Type: Short Survey

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