Volume 15, Issue 5 (September 2013) 15, 588–589; 10.1038/aja.2013.87
Is prostate cancer a Lynch syndrome cancer?
Aung Ko Win
Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic and Analytic Epidemiology, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, Parkville, Vic. 3010, Australia
Correspondence: Dr AK Win, (awin@unimelb.edu.au)
advance online publication 1 July 2013
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The question of whether men with an inherited genetic condition called Lynch syndrome have an increased risk of developing prostate cancer has been controversial. It is important to answer this question, for understanding the role of DNA mismatch repair in carcinogenesis of prostate as well as for clinical implications for screening.
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