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Familial gastric cancer: update for practice management

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About 90% of gastric carcinoma presents a sporadic setting and only 10% shows a familial cluster; among this group, 1–3% are considered as hereditary syndromes, with a clear genetic pathway. The most important genetic mechanisms are associated with CDH1 germline mutations, causing the hereditary diffuse gastric cancer syndrome. Other inherited predispositions with gastric carcinoma are the hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer, Li-Fraumeni and Peutz-Jeghers syndromes. In this brief update, we described these principal hereditary syndromes offering a simple management to physicians where are these diseases diagnosed.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by Istituto Toscano Tumori (‘‘Gene expression profile and therapeutic implication in gastric cancer. From the clinical overview to the translational research’’; Grant ITT-2007) and PhD grant (ref. SFRH/BD/40090/2007).

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  1. Department of Human Pathology and Oncology, Section of General Surgery and Surgical Oncology, Translational Research Laboratory, University of Siena, Siena, Italy

    Giovanni Corso, Daniele Marrelli & Franco Roviello

  2. Istituto Toscano Tumori (ITT), Florence, Italy

    Giovanni Corso, Daniele Marrelli & Franco Roviello

  3. Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology of the University of Porto (IPATIMUP), Porto, Portugal

    Giovanni Corso

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Corso, G., Marrelli, D. & Roviello, F. Familial gastric cancer: update for practice management. Familial Cancer 10, 391–396 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10689-010-9410-1

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