Lynch Syndrome

 

 

 

 

 In 1895, pathologist Aldred Scott Warthin at the University of Michigan described a family with multiple cases of:

• colon cancer, endometrial cancer and gastric cancer. 

 

The syndrome was rediscovered by Henry T. Lynch, an oncologist and geneticist.

• In the 1960s, Lynch studied families with: 
• early-onset colon cancer
• multiple cancers across generations
• no polyposis (unlike FAP)  

 

 

 

 

 

 

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