According to the NHS, Lynch syndrome is an autosomal dominant condition.<\/p>\n
Each child and sibling of an affected individual has a 50% chance of inheriting the condition.<\/p>\n
The NHS can carry out genetic tests to investigate whether Lynch syndrome runs in someone’s family.<\/p>\n
Lynch syndrome affects around 175,000 people, but only 5% are aware they are living with it.<\/p>\n
Professor Julian Barwell, consultant in clinical genetics at the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, said: “It’s important for people to be able to have conversations about cancer running in their families.<\/p>\n
“There are so many things that we can do now to help support and protect families and keep them together for longer.<\/p>\n
“But it starts with you having that conversation and taking that first step.”<\/p>\n
Barwell, who is also an Honorary Professor in genomic medicine at the University of Leicester, added: “There are groups looking to develop vaccines against Lynch syndrome tumours.<\/p>\n
“We are hopeful within the next generation, we will be able to offer vaccines to people with Lynch syndrome, to reduce the risk of them actually developing a tumour in the first place.”<\/p>\n
William said if people can have “those open and honest conversations you can actually make a difference to your future by doing so”.<\/p>\n
Harjit added: “It’s really, really important that we should talk. We are here because we have Lynch syndrome and we want to make a difference.<\/p>\n
“If it changes the lives of one person – saves a family – then I think that’s key at the end of the day, so [we are] happy to share our story.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the NHS, Lynch syndrome is an autosomal dominant condition. Each child and sibling of an affected…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":748039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-748038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}