Colorectal cancer is preventable and curable if caught early Various tests can detect signs of colorectal cancer. Colonoscopy remains the gold standard test because it is the only test to identify ...

Effect of exercise on colorectal cancer prevention and treatment. World J Gastrointest Oncol . 2019;11(5): 348-366. doi: 4251/wjgo.v11.i5.348 Seo JY, Jin EH, Chung GE, et al.

Hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC)—Lynch syndrome (LS) for short—is the most common hereditary colorectal cancer syndrome. Based on estimates, it is believed to affect ...

To do this, they used a genetic condition called Lynch syndrome, also known as hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer. Like BRCA1, a gene known to cause certain breast cancers, ...

He first identified a strain of hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer in the 1960s. It wasn't until 1984 that the term Lynch syndrome was coined. Although not an actual cancer, ...

Lynch syndrome. Lynch syndrome, also called hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer polyposis (English HNPCC) is an inherited disease that increases the risk of various tumors , especially colon ...

Screening tumors from all colon cancer patients could be a cost-effective way of spotting families at high genetic risk of the disease, a study published Monday suggests. Of the roughly 160,000 ...

In 2003, Italian researchers reported that a similar genetic condition, hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC), was linked to a greater complexity of blood vessels in the oral mucosa ...

Background: With the aim to identify genetic markers of hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC), we applied tiling BAC array-based comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) to 46 ...

Also known as hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer, Lynch syndrome is believed to be responsible for approximately 3 percent of all colon cancers and is twice as frequent as BRCA breast cancer ...

RJ Fitzgibbons Jr, HT Lynch, GV Stanislav, etal : Recognition and treatment of patients with hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer (Lynch syndromes I and II) Ann Surg 206: 289– 295,1987. Crossref.

Purpose: Known and suspected mutation carriers for hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer are advised to have colonoscopies every 1 to 2 years to detect colorectal cancer. Little is known about ...