Current|Update|Genomics|CDC ► March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month: Know Your Family History

Current|Update|Genomics|CDC

March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month: Know Your Family History

This week, we highlight colorectal cancer screening and risk factors, including genetics and family history. For more information, please check our Public Health Genomics Knowledge Base and for specific information on Lynch syndrome.

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Last Updated: Mar 03, 2016

• Cost-effectiveness of routine screening for Lynch syndrome in colorectal cancer patients up to 70 years of age
  CHM Leenen et al, Genetics in Medicine, March 3, 2016 (From Discoveries and Insights Database)
• Genetic Screening in All Young Patients With Colorectal Cancer?
  Saltz, L. Journal of Clinical Oncology 2016 Feb 29 (From Genomics & Health Impact Scan Database)
• Hereditary diffuse gastric cancer: updated clinical guidelines with an emphasis on germline CDH1 mutation carriers.
  van der Post Rachel S et al. Journal of medical genetics 2015 Jun 52(6) 361-74 (From Genomics & Health Impact Scan Database)
• Genotyping of Colorectal Cancer for Cancer Precision Medicine: Results from the IPH Center for Molecular Pathology.
  Jesinghaus Moritz et al. Genes, chromosomes & cancer 2016 Feb (From Genomics & Health Impact Scan Database)
• Colorectal cancer screening saves lives. Talk to your doctor about getting screened.
  (From CDC Information Database)
• How much do you know about colorectal cancer?
  Take the CDC quiz (From CDC Information Database)
• What Are the Risk Factors for Colorectal Cancer?
  (From CDC Information Database)
• Mutation analysis of 13 driver genes of colorectal cancer-related pathways in Taiwanese patients.
  Chang Yuli Christine, et al. World journal of gastroenterology 2016 2 (7) 2314-25 (From HuGE Literature Finder)
• Identification of Novel Candidate Genes for Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer Susceptibility.
  de Voer Richarda M, et al. PLoS genetics 2016 2 (2) e1005880 (From HuGE Literature Finder)
• High Prevalence of Human Papillomavirus in Colorectal Cancer in Hispanics: A Case-Control Study.
  Bernabe-Dones Raul D, et al. Gastroenterology research and practice 2016 0 7896716 (From HuGE Literature Finder)