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BCNS
(redirected from Basal Cell Nevus Syndrome)

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BCNSBasal Cell Nevus Syndrome


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Mutations in the patched gene have been found to underlie the basal cell nevus syndrome in which patients develop innumerable basal cell carcinomas, as well as odontogenic jar keratocysts, craniofacial and musculoskeletal abnormalities, palmar pits, and a variety of other tumors including medulloblastomas.
Discovery of the new gene is "incredibly significant in terms of understanding the pathogenesis of basal cell nevus syndrome and basal cell carcinomas in general," comments Bert Vogelstein of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in Baltimore.
In basal cell nevus syndrome patients, 95 percent of tumors responded.
 
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