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SUBMITTER: Win AK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4041733 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Win Aung Ko AK Parry Susan S Parry Bryan B Kalady Matthew F MF Macrae Finlay A FA Ahnen Dennis J DJ Young Graeme P GP Lipton Lara L Winship Ingrid I Boussioutas Alex A Young Joanne P JP Buchanan Daniel D DD Arnold Julie J Le Marchand Loïc L Newcomb Polly A PA Haile Robert W RW Lindor Noralane M NM Gallinger Steven S Hopper John L JL Jenkins Mark A MA
Annals of surgical oncology 20130129 6
<h4>Background</h4>Despite regular surveillance colonoscopy, the metachronous colorectal cancer risk for mismatch repair (MMR) gene mutation carriers after segmental resection for colon cancer is high and total or subtotal colectomy is the preferred option. However, if the index cancer is in the rectum, management decisions are complicated by considerations of impaired bowel function. We aimed to estimate the risk of metachronous colon cancer for MMR gene mutation carriers who underwent a procte ...[more]