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ACG Clinical Guideline: Genetic Testing and Management of Hereditary Gastrointestinal Cancer Syndromes

This guideline presents recommendations for the management of patients with hereditary gastrointestinal cancer syndromes. The initial assessment is the collection of a family history of cancers and premalignant gastrointestinal conditions and should provide enough information to develop a preliminary determination of the risk of a familial predisposition to cancer. According to the new guideline, genetic testing is widely available and should be part of standard of care of patients at increased risk for a hereditary cancer syndrome.

Authors: Sapna Syngal, MD, MPH, FACG, Randall E. Brand, MD, FACG, James M. Church, MD, FACG, Francis M. Giardiello, MD, Heather L. Hampel, MS, CGC and Randall W. Burt, MD, FACG

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Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology

Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology, published on behalf of the ACG, is a peer-reviewed, open-access online journal dedicated to innovative clinical work in the field of gastroenterology and hepatology. CTG welcomes hypothesis-generating case series, translational studies, insightful reviews, and more. CTG is indexed on PubMed and offers tiered publication fees for ACG members.

See www.nature.com/ctg for more information.

GIQuIC

GI Quality Improvement Consortium, Ltd.

Improve clinical outcomes through higher quality procedural services. Participate in GIQuIC, an ACG and ASGE joint initiative aimed at providing GI practices with a powerful quality improvement benchmarking tool. GIQuIC leverages actual clinical data in real-time, which has been shown to be more accurate than claims-based data in representing clinical performance. READ MORE