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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Ali Akram, M.B.B.S.[2] Maria Fernanda Villarreal, M.D. [3]
Overview
Lynch syndrome was first described by Dr. Henry T. Lynch, an American physician, in 1966.
Overview
Historical Perspective
- In 1913, Aldred Warthin, Chairman of the Department of Pathology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, first reported a family which he called 'Family G' with features of the disease now known as Lynch syndrome. He recognized there were "cancer fraternities" and there was an influence of heredity on cancer.[1]
- In 1966, Dr. Henry T. Lynch described 2 Midwestern families whose members were affected with colon, gastric, and endometrial cancers.[2]
- In 1971, Lynch and Krush updated the studies of the family, in which they introduced the term 'cancer family syndrome" for the disease affecting the families.[3]
- The term "Lynch syndrome" was coined in 1984 by Boland and Troncale.[4]
- Lynch named the condition "hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer" in 1985. Since then the two terms have been used interchangeably. [5]Other sources reserve the term "Lynch syndrome" when there is a known DNA mismatch repair defect, and use the term "familial colorectal cancer type X" or "hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer" when the Amsterdam criteria are met but there is no known DNA mismatch repair defect.[6]
- In 1994, the Amsterdam Guidelines were published to help classify HNPCC.
References
- ↑ C. Richard Boland & Henry T. Lynch (2013). "The history of Lynch syndrome". Familial cancer. 12 (2): 145–157. doi:10.1007/s10689-013-9637-8. PMID 23546821. Unknown parameter
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ignored (help) - ↑ Lynch HT, Shaw MW, Magnuson CW, Larsen AL, Krush AJ (Feb 1966). "Hereditary factors in cancer. Study of two large midwestern kindreds". Archives of Internal Medicine. 117 (2): 206–12. doi:10.1001/archinte.117.2.206. PMID 5901552.
- ↑ H. T. Lynch & A. J. Krush (1971). "The cancer family syndrome and cancer control". Surgery, gynecology & obstetrics. 132 (2): 247–250. PMID 5547406. Unknown parameter
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ignored (help) - ↑ C. R. Boland & F. J. Troncale (1984). "Familial colonic cancer without antecedent polyposis". Annals of internal medicine. 100 (5): 700–701. PMID 6712034. Unknown parameter
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ignored (help) - ↑ Bellizzi AM, Frankel WL (Nov 2009). "Colorectal cancer due to deficiency in DNA mismatch repair function: a review". Advances in Anatomic Pathology. 16 (6): 405–17. doi:10.1097/PAP.0b013e3181bb6bdc. PMID 19851131.
- ↑ Lindor NM (Oct 2009). "Familial colorectal cancer type X: the other half of hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer syndrome". Surgical Oncology Clinics of North America. 18 (4): 637–45. doi:10.1016/j.soc.2009.07.003. PMC 3454516. PMID 19793571.