Study revises colorectal cancer risk down and other cancer risks up for women with Lynch Syndrome - (University of) Colorado Cancer Blogs

Blogger's Note: note sent to blogger re: risk of ovarian cancer? it may be that the study was too small, should be renal pelvis? .......

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Study revises colorectal cancer risk down and other cancer risks up for women with Lynch Syndrome - Colorado Cancer Blogs

" The research group, which includes member from six centers, used data from 127 women included in the Colon Cancer Family Registry (CCFR)."

.....“This new information helps patient care in two important ways. First, it helps us counsel women with Lynch Syndrome who have had endometrial cancer about the magnitude of their future cancer risk, which turns out to be about 55 percent over the 20 years after diagnosis of their endometrial cancer.   Second, it helps fill in the picture of the spectrum of cancers that are associated with Lynch Syndrome, which includes not only colorectal and endometrial cancers, but kidney, ureter, renal, pelvic, urinary, bladder and breast cancers in that order as well,” says Dennis J. Ahnen, MD, CU Cancer Center investigator and professor of gastroenterology at the Denver VA Medical Center, one of the paper’s co-authors.