Early Gastric Cancer in Young, Asymptomatic Carriers of Germ-Line E-Cadherin Mutations - Concepedia

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Early Gastric Cancer in Young, Asymptomatic Carriers of Germ-Line E-Cadherin Mutations

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2001

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David G. Huntsman, Fátima Carneiro, Frank R. Lewis, Patrick MacLeod, Allen Hayashi, Kristin G. Monaghan, Raymond Maung, Raquel Seruca, Charles E. Jackson, Carlos Caldas

New England Journal of Medicine

Abstract

We recommend genetic counseling and consideration of prophylactic gastrectomy in young, asymptomatic carriers of germ-line truncating CDH1 mutations who belong to families with highly penetrant hereditary diffuse gastric cancer.

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