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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Feb 21.
Published in final edited form as: Genet Med. 2022 Mar 26;24(6):1187–1195. doi: 10.1016/j.gim.2022.02.016

Table 2:

Cancer Spectrum in Lynch Syndrome Patients with P/LP Variants in MSH6 and PMS2

MSH6 PMS2
Cancer Overall (N=160) MMR-D/MSI-H (N=77) Overall (N=101) MMR-D/MSI-H (N=45)
Colorectal (CRC) 47 (29%) 33 (43%) 31 (31%) 23 (51%)
Endometrial (EC) 41 (26%) 25 (32%) 12 (12%) 10 (23%)
Breast 13 (8%) 1 (1%) 13 (13%) 0
Prostate 11 (7%) 1 (1%) 3 (3%) 1 (2%)
Urothelial (UC) 5 (3%) 4 (5%) 2 (2%) 1 (2%)
Pancreas/Biliary (PB) 5 (3%) 3 (4%) 7 (7%) 1 (2%)
Sarcoma 2 (1%) 0 0 0
Gastric/Esophageal (GEJ) 5 (3%) 3 (4%) 1 (1%) 0
Ovary (OC) 5 (3%) 2 (3%) 12 (12%) 4 (9%)
Lymphoma 3 (2%) 0 0 0
Melanoma 4 (3%) 0 0 0
CNS/Brain 1 (1%) 1 (1%) 4 (4%) 0
Small Bowel (SB) 1 (1%) 1 (1%) 5 (5%) 5 (11%)
Skin Tumors, Non-melanoma 6 (4%) 3 (4%) 5 (5%) 0
Kidney 2 (1%) 0 1 (1%) 0
Thyroid 2 (1%) 0 0 0
Testicular/Germ Cell 1 (1%) 0 1 (1%) 0
Carcinoma of Unknown Primary 0 0 1 (1%) 0
Lung 2 (1%) 0 0 0
Other 4 (3%) 0 3 (3%) 0

Table depicts cancer types and distribution for MSH6 and PMS2 heterozygotes, both overall and for MMR-D/MSI-H tumors.