Lynch syndrome and sextuple primary malignancies.

This article presents a rare clinical of a 61-year-old female diagnosed with extracolonic Lynch syndrome with six metachronous tumours acquiring in digestive tract during the period from 1993 to 2014 (over 21 years). No other cases of six primary malignancies in patient with Lynch syndrome have been reported in literature. Upon diagnosis of Lynch syndrome, it is important to screen patient for malignancies of different localization as this syndrome predisposes appearance of various cancers at earlier age than in general population. PMID: 28938854 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Acta Chirurgica Belgica - Category: Surgery Tags: Acta Chir Belg Source Type: research