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The Incidence of Lynch Syndrome

Familial Cancer volume 4, pages 233–237 (2005)Cite this article

Abstract

Lynch syndrome (LS) here is defined as carriership of a deleterious mismatch repair (MMR) gene mutation. By screening for MMR gene mutations in unselected colorectal or endometrial cancer patients, it was found that the prevalence of LS in colorectal and endometrial cancer patients is 1–3%. On extrapolation to the entire population, the incidence of LS is between 1:2000 and 1:660. As all screening methods are less than 100% sensitive, the above figures are underestimates.

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de la Chapelle, A. The Incidence of Lynch Syndrome. Familial Cancer 4, 233–237 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10689-004-5811-3

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Keywords

  • frequency
  • hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer
  • incidence
  • Lynch syndrome
  • mismatch repair gene mutations
  • prevalence