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Annals of Oncology 13:807-808, 2002
© 2002 European Society for Medical Oncology

Letters to the Editor

Highly aggressive leiomyosarcoma associated with Lynch II syndrome: increasing the range of extracolonic cancers related with hereditary non-polyposis colonic cancer

V. Medina Arana1, Y. Barrios del Pino2, C. García-Castro3, J. J. González-Aguilera4, A. Fernández-Peralta4 and F. González Hermoso1

1Servicio de Cirugía General y Digestiva; 2Unidad de Investigación; 3Servicio de Anatomía Patológica, Hospital Universitario de Canarias, Ofra-La Cuesta, 38071 La Laguna, Tenerife; 4Unidad de Genética Dpto. de Biología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain (E-mail: vmedina@comtf.es)

Lynch syndrome, or hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC), is a hereditary syndrome that predisposes the individual to different types of cancer. The appearance of a colorectal cancer (usually in the right colon) at a young age is the guiding symptom [1]. Moreover, this can also be associated with other extracolonic cancers (mainly located in the endometrium, stomach, ovary, hepatobiliary tract and urinary tract) [. . . [Full Text of this Article]

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