“Everyone in his family had died of colon cancer,” Dr. Lynch recalled. Dr. Lynch died June 2 at a hospice center in Omaha at 91. Dr. Lynch was credited with providing, in the 1960s, the first complete description of hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer, a form of colon cancer eventually renamed Lynch syndrome. Besides colon and breast and ovarian cancers, Dr. Lynch documented hereditary forms of melanoma and prostate and pancreatic cancers. In the 1980s, according to his university, Dr. Lynch severely injured his back but refused to cancel a scheduled lecture.

Source: Washington Post June 04, 2019 23:03 UTC