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Hereditary tendency to the syndrome that associates certain tumours to the kidney and the uterus
The collaboration between the Service of Medical Oncology, which is the one that assists the patients, and the Genetic Counsel Unit of ICO in Hospitalet have brought about an advance in the identification of the hereditary tendency to develop a rare syndrome which associates uterine lomiomes and kidney cancer in the clear cells through the study of a new mutation of the FH gene. This project has been elaborated together with the University of Helsinki and published in Human Pathology: “Conventional renal cancer in a patient with fumarate hydratase mutation (Doi:10.106/j.humpath.2006.10.011)


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