Prophylactic surgery prevents endometrial and ovarian cancer in Lynch syndrome

Nature Clinical Practice Oncology

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 672-673

  Lynch, Henry T ^a   Casey, Murray Joseph ^a  

^a CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN MLH1; PROTEIN MSH2; PROTEIN MSH6;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURGERY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COLON RESECTION; COLORECTAL CANCER; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FAMILIAL CANCER; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COUNSELING; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; GYNECOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; MENOPAUSE; OSTEOPOROSIS; OVARY CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; REVIEW; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY;

COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS, HEREDITARY NONPOLYPOSIS; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; MASS SCREENING; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; OVARIECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 36549033911     PISSN: 17434254     EISSN: 17434262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncponc1002     Document Type: Review

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