First Prospective Analysis Links Breast And Pancreatic Cancer Risk With Lynch Syndrom

[News]

A new prospective study of patients with Lynch syndrome - an inherited disorder of cancer susceptibility caused by mutations in specific DNA repair genes - provides the first strong evidence that people with Lynch syndrome face significantly increased risks of breast and pancreatic cancers...

More... (http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241629.php)

[Jackie07]

Lynch syndrom has also been known as HNPCC:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hereditary_nonpolyposis_colorectal_cancer