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Table 2 Risk of neoplastic disease manifestation in individual organs in cases of hamartomatous polyposis syndromes

From: Hamartomatous polyposis syndromes

Organ

Cumulative risk (%) of cancer development in individual syndromes of hamartomatous polyposis

Juvenile polyposis syndrome

Peutz - Jeghers` syndrome

PHTS

Thyroid gland

  

3-10

Breasts

 

(8% risk by age 40, 45% by age 70).

25-50

Stomach

21

29

 

Pancreas

Two cases

36

 

Small intestine

 

13

 

Large bowel

9%-68% (17%-22% by age 25

57 (9% ba age 40)

 

Kidneys

  

2

Urinary bladder

  

3

Uterus

 

9

6

Uterine cervix

 

10

3

Ovaries

 

21

2

Testes

 

9