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Persons identified (possibly through genetic testing) with a cancer syndrome who have not yet developed cancers may be considered to be in a precancerous stage of their disease.
Here, we have identified two sites of candidate tumor suppressor genes and confirmed the previous reports that the 5p deletions occur in a small proportion of precancerous lesions.
Comparative genomic hybridization (CGH), a molecular cytogenetic method that identifies chromosomal gains and losses, and loss of heterozygosity (LOH) studies have also demonstrated recurrent deletions on the 5p in precancerous lesions [ 7 8 9 10 ] . Although, these studies have identified 5p as a commonly affected region, the precise site of deletion that harbor putative TSG is unknown because of the lack of systematic and detailed deletion mapping studies.
Not all precancerous lesions fit into a biological group.
The plethora of terms reflects the difficulty of choosing a "best" canonical class term for the precancerous lesions.