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exclusion

in terms of Education legislation, schools may exclude children for disciplinary reasons, either for a fixed period or permanently. The courts will intervene where, in implementing the powers under the legislation, the school does not act fairly, such as by failing to make known to the student what is being alleged against him.

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Regardless, the Amsterdam criteria fail to identify approximately 50% of cases, and Bethesda guidelines fail to identify at least 30% of cases [14], which has led to increased support for the universal application of the polymerase chain reaction (for detection of MSI-high tumors) and/or IHC testing to all CRC specimens [15].

Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancer and Cancer Syndromes: Recent Basic and Clinical Discoveries

This patient's family history fulfilled Amsterdam criteria for Lynch syndrome with more than three family members with CRC in two consecutive generations and more than one family member diagnosed earlier than the age of 50 years.

Report of a novel mutation in MLH1 gene in a Hispanic family from Puerto Rico fulfilling classic Amsterdam criteria for Lynch syndrome

All individuals and families that fulfil the Amsterdam Criteria should be referred for colonoscopic surveillance as well as further laboratory testing to diagnose or exclude Lynch syndrome.

Colorectal cancer is common and survival is strongly related to the stage of the disease at diagnosis

The Amsterdam criteria were proposed in 1990 [18] and revised in 1997 to identify families at risk of HNPCC.

Inherited colorectal cancer: a plea for a national registry

In clinic, it is diagnosed by Amsterdam criteria I:5 (1) three or more relatives with histologically confirmed colorectal cancer, one of whom is the first-degree to the other two; (2) colorectal cancer affecting at least two generations; and (3) one or more colorectal cancer cases diagnosed before the age of 50.