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Three to four percent of colon cancers occur in the setting of inherited or familial cancer syndrome. Currently approximately half of these are currently attributed to hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) [1, 2].
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Nagle, D.A., Poylin, V. (2011). Familial Colorectal Cancer Type X. In: Ellis, C. (eds) Inherited Cancer Syndromes. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6821-0_6
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