Lack of guidelines creates high rates of missed Lynch syndrome diagnosis in UTUC

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“We found that while the NCCN guideline for Lynch syndrome is highly specific in identifying patients with Lynch syndrome, it missed about 50% of patients with upper tract cancer who had Lynch syndrome,” says Hong Truong, MD.

In this video, Hong Truong, MD,discusses the findings of the study, “Defining hereditary upper tract urothelial carcinoma: Implications for genetic testing and clinical management,” which was presented at the 2022 ASCO Genitourinary Cancers Symposium. Truong is a urologic oncology fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, New York.

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