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Precancerous Hereditary Colon Disease
Precancerous Hereditary Colon Disease
Precancerous Hereditary Colon Disease
Gardner s syndrome Autosomal Dominant APC gene (phenotypic variant of FAP) Multiple adenomatous polyps
Turcots syndrome
In colon
Numerous precancerous and cancerous polyps in colon and periampullary tumors More then 100 polyps in colon N\a
Herediatary nonpoliposos Cancer Autosomal Autosomal Recessive Dominant APC, MMR hMLH 1 and genes: MLH1 hMSH2 and PMS2 are (DNA involved in DNA mismatch mismatch repair repair gene) Colonic polyps Colorectal adenomas and cancer
Peutz-Jegers syndrome Autosomal Dominant STK11 (LKB1) [4] is a possible tumor suppressor gene Hamartomatous colon polyps
Association with other tumors Osteomas, Hepatoblastomas, Papillary thyroid carcinomas, periampullary adenomas Cutaneous findings of Gardner syndrome include epidermoid cysts, desmoid tumors, and other benign tumors N/a
Association with other tumors Tumor CNS: glioblastoma multiforme and medullablastoma
Other symptoms
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Part of Lynch syndrome (1 and 2) Lynch 2 is associated with endometrium cancer,cancer ovary and pancreas