Lynch Syndrome: Screening Implementation & Patient Needs

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Lynch Syndrome: Screening Implementation & Patient Needs

What is Lynch Syndrome? Lynch syndrome is an inherited condition that increases risk of colon cancer and other cancers (from the Mayo Clinic)

Implementing universal screening for Lynch Syndrome: State by state clickable map of activities

CDC podcast: Genetic testing for Lynch Syndrome in colorectal cancer

Lynch Syndrome Screening Network: The vision of the LSSN is to reduce the cancer burden associated with Lynch syndrome

I have Lynch Syndrome, Information from UCSF Kintalk website

Nothing prepared me for cancer: My first diagnosis of cancer came at age 29. After the second diagnosis 7 years later, I thought, this time I could die, by Suzann Vera, ASCO Post Feb 15

Patient-reported disease knowledge and educational needs in Lynch syndrome: findings of an interactive multidisciplinary patient conference. 
Bannon SA, et al. Hered Cancer Clin Pract. 2014 Feb 5;12(1):1.

Lynch Syndrome from a surgeon perspective: retrospective study of clinical impact of mismatch repair protein expression analysis in colorectal cancer patients less than 50 years old
Baiocchi GL, et al. BMC Surg 2014 Feb;14(1):9