Heredity of Carcinoma in Man
Authors: Aldred Scott Warthin
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1931)

Article1 January 1931Heredity of Carcinoma in ManALDRED SCOTT WARTHINALDRED SCOTT WARTHINSearch for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-4-7-681 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptIf one may judge from the literature, all of the animal experimental work on the heredity of cancer susceptibility has not made a very deep impression on the general medical mind, because in very few textbooks on pathology and special works on cancer, and in the propaganda literature of associations for the prevention or control of cancer, very little, if any, emphasis is laid upon the part played by heredity in the etiology of neoplasms. As far as our present statistics concerning the heredity of cancer in man are concerned, I believe that they have very little value indeed. No... This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Ann Arbor, Michigan*Presented in the Symposium on Cancer before the American College of Physicians, February 13, 1930. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byAldred Scott Warthin: Ann Arbor's Erudite, Outspoken, and Academically Transformative Early 20th Century PathologistAldred Scott Warthin’s Family ‘G’: The American Plot Against Cancer and Heredity (1895–1940)Extracolonic TumorsHistorical Aspects of Lynch SyndromeCancer Family History Reporting: Impact of Method and Psychosocial FactorsHighly penetrant hereditary cancer syndromesAssociation of colonic and endometrial carcinomas in Portuguese families with hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal carcinoma significantly increases the probability of detecting a pathogenic mutation in mismatch repair genes, primarily the MSH2 geneDiagnosis and Management of Hereditary Non-Polyposis Colon CancerPathogenesis and clinical management of hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancerIdentification and Referral of Families at High Risk for Cancer SusceptibilityHereditary Non-polyposis Colorectal Cancer (Lynch Syndrome)Mismatch Repair and the Hereditary Non-polyposis Colorectal Cancer Syndrome (HNPCC)Hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer: an updated reviewGenetics of Colorectal CancerA century of progress in hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (lynch syndrome)Hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancerAn update of HNPCC (Lynch syndrome)Hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (Lynch syndrome): An updated reviewThe clinical and genetic manifestations of hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal carcinomaGenetics, natural history, tumor spectrum, and pathology of hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer: An updated reviewHereditary Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancer—Lynch Syndromes I and IIHereditary colon cancer syndromes: polyposis and nonpolyposis (Lynch syndromes I & II) variantsKrebs und VererbungAn analysis of 5 “stomach cancer families” in the State of UtahKrebs und VererbungErbbiologie der Geschwülste des Menschen 1 January 1931Volume 4, Issue 7Page: 681-696KeywordsCancer preventionEtiologyHeredity ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 January 1931 PDF downloadLoading ...