Patient and Son with Lynch Syndrome (IMAGE)

Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

Patient and Son with Lynch Syndrome

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Nancy Rosen and her son, Michael Greene, have Lynch syndrome, an inherited genetic mutation that puts them at a very high lifetime risk for cancer, most commonly colorectal cancer.

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The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute

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