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Amsterdam criteria
A set of guidelines for identifying families that are likely to have a hereditary form of colon cancer called hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer (HNPCC). These guidelines were put together in Amsterdam by genetic colon cancer experts.

Hereditary, Hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer

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