Identifying people with Lynch syndrome has important implications for the person affected, and their family members. It is also a crucial part of the puzzle to improve survival of bowel cancer, through increasing early detection in people with a high risk of developing the disease.
Since 2018, considerable progress has been made, with 90% of UK bowel cancer
patients being tested for Lynch syndrome in 2022/23. However, significant challenges with testing family members and offering routine surveillance colonoscopies still require urgent attention.
Testing all newly diagnosed bowel cancer patients for Lynch syndrome (also called universal testing) and routine surveillance are vital to meeting the early diagnosis ambitions set out by governments and health services across the UK.
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