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Colorectal Neoplasms, Hereditary NonpolyposisThese sections are an automated search interface for bibliographic information and free full text in real time for a variety of topics related to Colorectal Neoplasms, Hereditary Nonpolyposis (HNPCC). To the right of each term you will find three icons. Clicking on the red icon
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Each bibliographic search in Pubmed generates a link to related or similar articles. If you click on ‘Related Articles’ Pubmed carries out a new automated search based on a complex algorithm which compares words in the title, words in the abstract and assigned MeSH terms. The results are displayed and ranked by relevance (instead of chronological order) from most relevant to less relevant in comparison with the original citations.HNPCC as defined by PubMed/MeSH
Colorectal Neoplasms, Hereditary Nonpolyposis: "A group of autosomal-dominant inherited diseases in which COLON CANCER arises in discrete adenomas. Unlike FAMILIAL POLYPOSIS COLI with hundreds of polyps, hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal neoplasms occur much later, in the fourth and fifth decades. HNPCC has been associated with germline mutations in mismatch repair (MMR) genes. It has been subdivided into Lynch syndrome I or site-specific colonic cancer, and LYNCH SYNDROME II which includes extracolonic cancer".