Beyond familial risk: deriving risk-adapted starting ages of screening among people with a family history of colorectal cancer

Cancer Commun (Lond). 2023 Dec;43(12):1377-1380. doi: 10.1002/cac2.12499. Epub 2023 Oct 24.

Authors

Xuechen Chen^{1

2}, Thomas Heisser¹, Rafael Cardoso¹, Julia Hibbert^{1

2}, Michael Hoffmeister¹, Hermann Brenner^{1

3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
² Medical Faculty Heidelberg, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.
³ Division of Preventive Oncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Heidelberg, Germany.
⁴ German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.

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Publication types

Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Colorectal Neoplasms* / diagnosis
Colorectal Neoplasms* / genetics
Early Detection of Cancer
Genetic Predisposition to Disease*
Humans
Risk Assessment

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