IMGP5578

FAP

•    Patients with adenomatous polyposis itself often are asymptomatic.

•    As many as 20% of patients may develop desmoids after cołectomy, which can compromise intra-abdominal organs and yesseJs. Additionally, adcnocarcinoma of the duodemim and the papilla of Vater occurs in as many as 12% of patients.

Rarer cancers associated with FAP includc medulloblastomas (Turcot syndrome), hepatoblastomas, thyroid cancer and adrenal hyperplasia and cancer.