Hereditary medullary thyroid carcinoma syndromes: experience from western India.

abstract：:Li-Fraumeni syndrome (LFS) is an autosomal dominantly inherited cancer predisposition syndrome characterized by a combination of tumors including sarcoma, breast cancer, brain tumors, adrenocortical carcinoma and leukemia. Germline mutations in the tumor suppressor gene TP53 are associated with LFS. We present a famil...

journal_title：Familial cancer

authors： van Hest LP,Ruijs MW,Wagner A,van der Meer CA,Verhoef S,van't Veer LJ,Meijers-Heijboer H

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Distress levels among female BRCA1/2 mutation carriers can be similar to levels found among breast cancer patients. While psychological distress has been associated with unmet needs among cancer patients no study has examined this among BRCA1/2 mutation carriers. The objectives of this study were to: (1) describe the ...

journal_title：Familial cancer

authors： Farrelly A,White V,Meiser B,Jefford M,Young MA,Ieropoli S,Winship I,Duffy J

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is an 11-year survey of molecular analysis of APC germline mutations for the province of Quebec done at the Molecular Pathology Unit of the Jewish General Hospital which offers genetic testing for hereditary forms of colorectal cancer for the whole of Quebec province. We report on 47 unique mutations seen in 66 f...

journal_title：Familial cancer

authors： Jarry J,Brunet JS,Laframboise R,Drouin R,Latreille J,Richard C,Gekas J,Maranda B,Monczak Y,Wong N,Pouchet C,Zaor S,Kasprzak L,Palma L,Wu MK,Tischkowitz M,Foulkes WD,Chong G

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate perceived pain during repetitive annual endometrial sampling at gynaecologic surveillance in asymptomatic women with Lynch syndrome (LS) over time and in addition to symptomatic women without LS, undergoing single endometrial sampling. In this prospective study, 52 women with LS or first degree relatives w...

journal_title：Familial cancer

authors： Helder-Woolderink J,de Bock G,Hollema H,van Oven M,Mourits M

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we aim to determine the prevalence of the recently identified pathogenic BRCA1 variant c.-107A > T in the south-east German population. This variant causes the epigenetic silencing of the BRCA1 promotor and has been detected in two independent families from the UK without a germline BRCA1 or BRCA2 pathog...

journal_title：Familial cancer

authors： Laner A,Benet-Pages A,Neitzel B,Holinski-Feder E

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lynch syndrome (LS) patients are at high risk of developing colorectal cancer (CRC). Phenotypic variability might in part be explained by common susceptibility loci identified in Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS). Previous studies focused mostly on MLH1, MSH2 and MSH6 carriers, with conflicting results. We aimed ...

journal_title：Familial cancer

authors： Ten Broeke SW,Elsayed FA,Pagan L,Olderode-Berends MJW,Garcia EG,Gille HJP,van Hest LP,Letteboer TGW,van der Kolk LE,Mensenkamp AR,van Os TA,Spruijt L,Redeker BJW,Suerink M,Vos YJ,Wagner A,Wijnen JT,Steyerberg EW,Tops

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While familial adenomatous polyposis accounts for approximately 1% of all colorectal cancer, the genetic cause underlying the development of multiple colonic adenomas remains unsolved in many patients. Adenomatous polyposis syndromes can be divided into: familial adenomatous polyposis, MUTYH-associated polyposis, poly...

journal_title：Familial cancer

authors： Groves A,Gleeson M,Spigelman AD

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prediction models for the identification of Lynch syndrome have been developed to quantify an individual's risk of carrying a mismatch repair gene mutation and help clinicians decide for whom further risk assessment and genetic testing is necessary. There are diverse clinical settings in which a healthcare provider ha...

journal_title：Familial cancer

authors： Kastrinos F,Balmaña J,Syngal S

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was aimed to characterize the distribution of colorectal cancer risk using family history of cancers by data mining. Family histories for 10,066 colorectal cancer cases recruited to population cancer registries of the Colon Cancer Family Registry were analyzed using a data mining framework. A novel index wa...

journal_title：Familial cancer

authors： Chau R,Jenkins MA,Buchanan DD,Ait Ouakrim D,Giles GG,Casey G,Gallinger S,Haile RW,Le Marchand L,Newcomb PA,Lindor NM,Hopper JL,Win AK

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PTCH1 and SUFU are both regulators of the sonic hedgehog signalling pathway. Germline inactivating mutations in both genes are associated with multisystem phenotypes including medulloblastoma. Somatic inactivating mutations in PTCH1 and SUFU each occur in approximately 10% of medulloblastomas. Recently, SUFU mutations...

journal_title：Familial cancer

authors： Slade I,Murray A,Hanks S,Kumar A,Walker L,Hargrave D,Douglas J,Stiller C,Izatt L,Rahman N

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While a dominant inheritance of breast cancer (vertical inheritance) is well known, less is known about a possible recessive inheritance (horizontal inheritance). In a clinical series of 1676 breast cancer patient's family history was scored as vertical (grandmother-aunt-mother-sister-daughter) or horizontal (sister-s...

journal_title：Familial cancer

authors： Ellberg C,Jönsson G,Olsson H

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lynch Syndrome is caused by mutations in DNA mismatch repair genes. Diagnosis is not always trivial and may be costly. Information regarding incidence, genotype-phenotype correlation, spectrum of mutations and genes involved in specific populations facilitate the diagnostic process and contribute to clinical work-up. ...

journal_title：Familial cancer

authors： Goldberg Y,Kedar I,Kariiv R,Halpern N,Plesser M,Hubert A,Kaduri L,Sagi M,Lerer I,Abeliovich D,Hamburger T,Nissan A,Goldshmidt H,Solar I,Geva R,Strul H,Rosner G,Baris H,Levi Z,Peretz T

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical practice guidelines discourage pediatric genetic testing for BRCA1/2 mutations due to a lack of timely medical benefit and psychosocial risk. Yet, some high risk families approach primary care providers (PCPs) about testing adolescents, and little is known about PCPs attitudes regarding these requests. We ass...

journal_title：Familial cancer

authors： O'Neill SC,Peshkin BN,Luta G,Abraham A,Walker LR,Tercyak KP

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Germline mutations in the CDKN2A gene are associated with an increased risk of malignant melanoma and pancreatic cancer. In order to find out if the behavior pattern in families with a CDKN2A mutation is similar to what we previously have described in families with a BRCA1 mutation, we have studied the uptake of genet...

journal_title：Familial cancer

authors： Levin T,Mæhle L

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Prospective collection of epidemiological, psychosocial and outcome data in large breast cancer family cohorts should provide less biased data than retrospective studies regarding penetrance of breast cancer and modifiers of genetic risk. METHODS:The Kathleen Cuningham Foundation for Research into Breast ...

journal_title：Familial cancer

authors： Phillips KA,Butow PN,Stewart AE,Chang JH,Weideman PC,Price MA,McLachlan SA,Lindeman GJ,McKay MJ,Friedlander ML,Hopper JL,kConFab Investigators.

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic services are receiving increasing numbers of referrals of people with a family history of cancer for assessment of genetic risk, and therefore need to find cost-effective ways of meeting this rising demand. General Practitioners (GPs) are known to be reluctant to take on genetic consultations. Current evidence...

journal_title：Familial cancer

authors： Gulzar Z,Goff S,Njindou A,Hearty H,Rafi I,Savage R,Matta G,Ferras J,Hodgson S

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peutz-Jeghers syndrome (PJS) is a hereditary polyposis syndrome characterized by hamartomatous Peutz-Jeghers polyps in the gastrointestinal tract, mucocutaneous pigmentations, and increased risk for intestinal and extraintestinal cancer. In more than two-third of patients it is possible to detect pathogenic variants i...

journal_title：Familial cancer

authors： Jelsig AM,Bertelsen B,Forss I,Karstensen JG

更新日期：2020-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Individuals with a family history of colorectal cancer (CRC), have a two-to-five-fold increased lifetime risk to develop CRC. Thus, they are particularly likely to benefit from adherence to medical recommendations for CRC prevention. Despite this increased risk, previous studies have shown an underutilization of colon...

journal_title：Familial cancer

authors： Bronner K,Mesters I,Weiss-Meilnik A,Geva R,Rozner G,Strul H,Inbar M,Halpern Z,Kariv R

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:African-American women are more likely to develop aggressive breast cancer at younger ages and experience poorer cancer prognoses than non-Hispanic Caucasians. Deficiency in repair of DNA by homologous recombination (HR) is associated with cancer development, suggesting that mutations in genes that affect this process...

journal_title：Familial cancer

authors： Ding YC,Adamson AW,Steele L,Bailis AM,John EM,Tomlinson G,Neuhausen SL

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Li-Fraumeni Syndrome (LFS) is characterized by risk of multiple primary malignancies in diverse sites, pediatric onset, near complete penetrance by age 70 years, limited options for prevention, and substantial uncertainty regarding disease manifestation and prognosis. Forty-five families, including 117 individuals age...

journal_title：Familial cancer

authors： Werner-Lin A,Young JL,Wilsnack C,Merrill SL,Groner V,Greene MH,Khincha PP

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This study aimed to analyze whether the occurrence of both breast and ovarian cancer in a woman serves as a marker for BRCA gene mutations. MATERIAL AND METHODS:This population-based study included 256 women in western Sweden who developed both invasive breast and ovarian tumors between 1958 and 1999. Archival par...

journal_title：Familial cancer

authors： Einbeigi Z,Bergman A,Meis-Kindblom JM,Flodin A,Bjursell C,Martinsson T,Kindblom LG,Wahlström J,Wallgren A,Nordling M,Karlsson P

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Somerset has a relatively high incidence of cancer. The county is very rural with pockets of deprivation and sizeable areas of poor access to services. The Cancer Plan advocates early identification of cancer and identified the genetic revolution as having the potential to predict risk, and detect and diagnose cancer ...

journal_title：Familial cancer

authors： Tozer D,Lugton C

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic testing for cancer susceptibility genes is increasingly being integrated into medical care. Test results help inform risks of the individual being tested as well as family members who could benefit from knowing the results. The responsibility for informing relatives of genetic test results falls on the proband...

journal_title：Familial cancer

authors： Daly MB,Montgomery S,Bingler R,Ruth K

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MUTYH is associated with colorectal cancer (CRC) risk. We studied the frequency of MUTYH and risk of CRC in Arabs, North African and European Jews. Participants were all 593 Sephardi Moroccan Jews (232 cases, 361 controls) and all 631 Arabs (327 cases, 304 controls) recruited into a population-based study of colorecta...

journal_title：Familial cancer

authors： Lejbkowicz F,Cohen I,Barnett-Griness O,Pinchev M,Poynter J,Gruber SB,Rennert G

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the indications, patterns of practice, and complication rates for prophylactic oophorectomy in Ontario. METHODS:From hospital discharge abstracts, 82 hospitals were identified where at least one patient had a prophylactic oophorectomy since 1992. Ethics approval for the chart review was obtained...

journal_title：Familial cancer

authors： Elit L,Rosen B,Goel V,McLaughlin J,Fung MK,Shime J,Narod S

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New Zealand Māori have a considerably higher incidence of gastric cancer compared to non-Māori, and are one of the few populations worldwide with a higher prevalence of diffuse-type disease. Pathogenic germline CDH1 mutations are causative of hereditary diffuse gastric cancer, a cancer predisposition syndrome primaril...

journal_title：Familial cancer

authors： Hakkaart C,Ellison-Loschmann L,Day R,Sporle A,Koea J,Harawira P,Cheng S,Gray M,Whaanga T,Pearce N,Guilford P

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) can be improved by early detection of the disease as treatment outcome worsens with disease's progression. This can be achieved with a mass screening program using Epstein Barr virus (EBV) serology and nasopharyngoscopy. The efficacy of any screening strategy should be evalu...

journal_title：Familial cancer

authors： Choi CW,Lee MC,Ng WT,Law LY,Yau TK,Lee AW

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Through germline multigene panel testing, we discovered the co-occurrence of Lynch syndrome due to a PMS2 mutation and juvenile polyposis syndrome due to a BMPR1A mutation in a young man with synchronous bladder and colorectal cancers and a family history of colorectal polyps. To our knowledge, this is the first repor...

journal_title：Familial cancer

authors： Silva-Smith R,Sussman DA

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased risk for urological tumors has been observed in mutation carriers with Lynch syndrome (LS). In this study, we evaluated the clinical features of uroepithelial (bladder and ureter) and kidney cancers in 974 Finnish mutation carriers. Altogether 30 patients had a total of 34 urological tumors: 12 ureter, 12 bl...

journal_title：Familial cancer

authors： Aarnio M,Säily M,Juhola M,Gylling A,Peltomäki P,Järvinen HJ,Mecklin JP

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following the identification in a proband of a germline BRCA1/BRCA2 mutation in hereditary breast-ovarian cancer (HBOC) or a DNA mismatch repair gene mutation in Lynch syndrome (LS) he or she will be asked to inform at-risk family members about the option for presymptomatic DNA testing. However, in clinical practice m...

journal_title：Familial cancer

authors： Menko FH,Ter Stege JA,van der Kolk LE,Jeanson KN,Schats W,Moha DA,Bleiker EMA

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00