Here’s what you should know:
1. Researchers analyzed 1,058 individuals with colon cancer.
2. The patients agreed to have blood drawn for research.
3. Researchers performed germline testing on all individuals using a 25-gene panel to look for inherited mutations associated with cancer risk.
4. Researchers found that inherited mutations were identified in nearly 10 percent of individuals analyzed with the 25-gene panel.
Researchers said that number “was higher than what we would have expected in the past.”
The researchers concluded that there might be a link between mutations in those genes and CRC risk.
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