Study calls for mass screening of Lynch Syndrome
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
A US study has recommended that colon cancer patients should be tested for Lynch Syndrome, a hereditary condition which carries an extremely high risk for cancer. The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine (May 5), showed that at least 23 out of 1,066 patients (2.2%) with recently-diagnosed adenocarcinoma of the colorectum and who underwent DNA microsatellite-instability testing and immunochemistry staining were found to have a Lynch Syndrome-associated deleterious mutation.