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Revised Guidelines Published for Testing for Hereditary Type of Colorectal Cancer
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Journal of the National Cancer Institute
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An international group of experts has updated a set of criteria for testing patients with colorectal cancer to determine whether the cancer is a specific type that is inherited and therefore may mean that a patients family members are at an increased risk of the disease. The revised Bethesda Guidelines are published in the