Cancer Therapy
Women with endometrial cancer should be screened for inherited mutations
Published in Women's Health Weekly, August 24th, 2006
The study showed that 1.8%, or about one in 50, of newly diagnosed endometrial cancer patients have mutations for Lynch syndrome, an inherited condition also known as hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer, or HNPCC.
People with Lynch syndrome mutations are at high risk for colon, endometrial, ovarian and gastric cancer. Endometrial, or uterine, cancer is the most common cancer in women with this condition.
"It's important to identify women with one of these mutations because...
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