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1
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What are the predominant risk factors for CRC?

A 
aging
personal hx ofr CRC or adenomas
high fat and charred meat diet
inflammatory bowel disease
FHx of CRC
hereditary cancer syndromes
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2
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General population risk of CRC:

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6%

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3
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What’s your risk for CRC if you have a personal hx?

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15-20%

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4
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CRC risk if you have inflammatory bowel disease?

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15-40%

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CRC risk if you have a HNPCC (Lynch) mutation?

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60-80%

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6
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CRC risk if you have FAP?

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> 95% (due to sheer number of polyps)

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7
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What’s your risk if no FHX of CRC?

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2%

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CRC risk with one 1st degree relative?

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6%

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9
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CRC risk with one 1st and one 2nd degree relative w CRC?

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8%

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10
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CRC risk if you have. a1st degree relative dx <45y?

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10%

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11
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CRC risk if you have 2 1st degree w/ CRC?

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17%

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12
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What % of CRC is sporadci?

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65-85%

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13
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What % of CRC is familial?

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10-30%

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What % of CRC is caused by Lynch syndrome? What types of genes are these?

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2-3%, MMR

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15
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what % of CRC is caused by FAP?

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1%

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16
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At what stage do polyps become malginant?

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once they become adenocarcinomas

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17
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What stages are before adenocarcinoma in the carcinogenesis of CRC?

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hyperproliferation
small polyp
large polyp
severe dysplasia

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18
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What’s the most common type of polyp? malignant?

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hyperplastic, rarely

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19
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What types of polyps have low malignant potential?

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imflammatory and hamartomatous

20
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What types of polyps are hamartomatous?

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juvenile and Peutz-Jeghers

21
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What types o polyps are usually the most malignant?

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adenomatous

22
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What gene is associated with FAP?

A

APC

23
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What’s the penetrance of APC mutation for polyps and cancer w/o management?

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roughly 100

24
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What other cancers are ppl with FAP at risk for?

A 
upper GI
desmoid
osteoma
thryoid
brain
hepatoblastoma (ped liver)
25
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What else can be present with FAP?

A

CHRPE

26
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What areas, after colon, most commonly develop cancer in FAP?

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small intestine and upper GI

27
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What’s different about aFAP and FAP?

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aFAP:

  • more moderate phenotype
  • later onset (CRC age 50y)
  • not associated with chrpe
  • UGI lesions
28
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How is FAP inherited? What % of mutations are de novo?

A

AD

25%

29
Q

How do you surveil aFAP? FAP?

A 
full colonoscopy (later teens)
colonoscopy or sigmoidoscopy (age 10-15)
30
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What are the characteristics of MUTYH-associated polyposis?

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15

31
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How is MUTYH-associated polyposis inherited?

A

AR

30% have identifiable mutations

32
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What are some other polyposis syndromes?

A

Hereditary mixed poylposis syndrome
Sessile serrated poylposis
Oligodontia-CRC syndrome

33
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What 4 MMR genes are associated with Lynch syndrome? What other gene is involved?

A

MLH1, MSH2, PMS2, MSH6, EPCAM

34
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Around what age does somenoe with Lynch syndrome get diagnosed with CRC?

A

45y

35
Q

Mutations in MLH1 and MSH2 may also result in cancers of the:

A

endometrium and ovaries

36
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What % of people with Lynch syndrome present with synchronous CRC? Metachronous?

A

20% syn

40% met. within 10 yrs

37
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The Amsterdam criteria is also known as the:

A

3-2-1 rule

38
Q

Describe the 3-2-1 rule.

A
  • 3 or more relatives with HNPCC associated cancer
  • At least two successive generations affected
  • one or more cancer by the age of 50
39
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What two things are reported on tumor studies?

A

MSI and IHC

40
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What type of MSI is more prevalent in Lynch syndrome?

A

high

41
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If MLH1 and PSM2 are both absent from tumor then it is most likely a germline mutation in:

A

MLH1

42
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If MSH2 and MSH6 are both absent from tumor then it is most likely a germline mutation in:

A

MSH2 or EPCAM

43
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If MSH6 is absent from tumor then it is most likely a germline mutation in:

A

MSH6

44
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If PMS2 is absent from tumor then it is most likely a germline mutation in:

A

PMS2

45
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Roughly 90% of Lynch families have mutations in:

A

MLH1 or MSH2

46
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What types of testing is done for GI cancers?

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mostly cover Polyposis and Lynch, TP53 included fro Li-Fraumeni

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