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Registry of families with cancer could lead to earlier diagnosis The creation of a National Registry of Cancer Prone Families would definitely save lives according to Henry T. Lynch, MD, chairman of the Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health at Creighton University School of Medicine in Omaha. At a conference on the Genetics of Human Cancer in Orlando, Fla, sponsored by the National Cancer Institute and the National Foundation-March of Dimes, Dr Lynch emphasized the importance of family history in assessing a patient's cancer risk and noted that for large and mobile families in the United States, the management of cancer may involve as many as 100 physicians. He himself is currently monitoring a cancer-prone family, first mentioned in the literature in 1890, that now has an extended pedigree of more than 2,000 members. He also reported on the finding of a cancer family syndrome in 15 families.
JAMA – American Medical Association
Published: Jan 12, 1976
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