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The Probability of Developing Familial Adenomatous Polyposis: Combining the Diminishing Risks with Age with Negative Screening at Advancing Age and Linked Gene Markers

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Familial Adenomatous Polyposis (FAP) is a rare dominantly inherited disorder characterized by multiple premalignant polyposis in the colon and rectum, occasional polyps in the upper gastro-intestinal tract and other extra-intestinal manifestations including osteomas and epidermoid cysts, desmoid formation, congenital hypertrophy of retinal pigment and other malignant changes including in the thyroid gland.

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  1. Joan Slack
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  1. Second Department of Surgery, Hyogo College of Medicine, 1-1 Mukogawa-cho, Nishinomiya, Hyogo, 663, Japan

    Joji Utsunomiya M. D. (Professor and Chairman) (Professor and Chairman)

  2. Department of Preventive Medicine, Creighton University School of Medicine, Hereditary Cancer Center, California at 24th Street, Omaha, NE, 68178, USA

    Henry T. Lynch M. D. (Professor and Chairman) (Professor and Chairman)

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Slack, J. (1990). The Probability of Developing Familial Adenomatous Polyposis: Combining the Diminishing Risks with Age with Negative Screening at Advancing Age and Linked Gene Markers. In: Utsunomiya, J., Lynch, H.T. (eds) Hereditary Colorectal Cancer. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-68337-7_11

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