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Apr 30th, 2022 - The gastrointestinal hamartomatous polyposis syndromes are rare, autosomal dominant disorders associated with an increased risk of benign and malignant intestinal and extraintestinal tumors. They include Peutz-Jeghers syndrome, juvenile polyposis ...

Apr 30th, 2022 - The gastrointestinal hamartomatous polyposis syndromes are rare, autosomal dominant disorders associated with an increased risk of benign and malignant intestinal and extraintestinal tumors. They include Peutz-Jeghers syndrome, juvenile polyposis ...

Apr 27th, 2022 - The gastrointestinal hamartomatous polyposis syndromes are rare, autosomal dominant disorders associated with an increased risk of benign and malignant intestinal and extraintestinal tumors. They include Peutz-Jeghers syndrome, juvenile polyposis ...

Apr 26th, 2022 - Peutz-Jeghers syndrome is an autosomal dominant condition characterized by the association of hamartomatous polyps in the digestive tract, mucocutaneous pigmentation, family history, and infrequently tumors of the female genital tract with one of ...

Apr 16th, 2022 - Labial lentigines associated with Peutz-Jeghers syndrome are challenging and represent a cosmetic problem. Laser and intense-pulsed light sources (IPLS) can be used to treat these macules. However, there are few guidelines regarding the different ...

Apr 30th, 2022 - The gastrointestinal hamartomatous polyposis syndromes are rare, autosomal dominant disorders associated with an increased risk of benign and malignant intestinal and extraintestinal tumors. They include Peutz-Jeghers syndrome, juvenile polyposis ...

Apr 30th, 2022 - The gastrointestinal hamartomatous polyposis syndromes are rare, autosomal dominant disorders associated with an increased risk of benign and malignant intestinal and extraintestinal tumors. They include Peutz-Jeghers syndrome, juvenile polyposis ...

Nov 26th, 2019 - A hereditary cancer syndrome is a genetic predisposition to certain types of cancer, often with onset at an early age, caused by inherited pathogenic variants in one or more genes. Most hereditary cancer syndromes exhibit autosomal dominant inheri...

Feb 4th, 2015 - This guideline presents recommendations for the management of patients with hereditary gastrointestinal cancer syndromes. The initial assessment is the collection of a family history of cancers and premalignant gastrointestinal conditions and shou...

Mar 24th, 2022 - A Vater's ampulloma is a rare digestive tumour which accounts for under 1% of all digestive tumours. In terms of incidence, it is the 3rd most common biliary tract tumour after gallbladder cancer and common bile duct cancer. The incidence of ampul...

Jun 18th, 2021 - Pancreatic cancer (PC) is the 4th leading cause of cancer death in the U.S. Because it is seldom diagnosed at an early curable stage, nearly all patients die from their disease. Early detection of PC and its precursors will save lives. In a multi-...

Sep 7th, 2018 - Pancreatic cancer is a deadly disease and the only hope for improvement of survival is early detection. Certain genetic syndromes are associated with a high risk of pancreatic cancer and screening for pancreatic cancer has become a relatively new ...

Jul 26th, 2013 - Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome is a hereditary polyposis condition in which hamartomatous tumors develop in many tissues of the body. These tumors are benign but frequently cause gastrointestinal obstruction and bleeding beginning in the 2nd-3rd decades o...

Apr 29th, 2022 - A clinical practice guideline for the diagnosis and management of gastrointestinal hamartomatous polyposis syndromes has just been published by the U.S. Multi-Society Task Force on Colorectal Cancer, which is comprised of experts representing the ...

Apr 16th, 2021 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Surveillance of people at high hereditary risk for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) can lead to diagnosis at an earlier stage, but as yet there is no clear survival benefit, according to researchers in the Nether...

Dec 5th, 2020 - Katrina S. Pedersen, MD, MS A new set of recommendations for the treatment of small bowel adenocarcinoma (SBA), a relatively rare type cancer of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, have been created by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN...

Dec 4th, 2020 - Shirley Michelle Shiller, DO Regarding precision medicine in gastrointestinal (GI) cancers, pathologists are working to determine which patient populations should undergo which molecular tests. Colorectal Cancer In a presentation during the 201...

Sep 13th, 2019 - This transcript has been edited for clarity. Hello. I'm Dr David Johnson, professor of medicine and chief of gastroenterology at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia. Welcome back to another GI Common Concerns. Today I want to talk...