Screening adherence and cancer risk perceptions in colorectal cancer survivors with Lynch-like syndrome.
CONCLUSIONS: Most CRC survivors with LLS follow the same cancer screening recommended for LS patients but do not understand the meaning of LLS. Greater care must be devoted to communicating the implications of non-diagnostic germline mutation testing among patients with LLS.
PMID: 26272410 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Clinical Genetics - Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Katz LH, Burton-Chase AM, Advani S, Fellman B, Polivka KM, Yuan Y, Lynch PM, Peterson SK Tags: Clin Genet Source Type: research
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