The Nation - News from June 13, 1985

Researchers reported that intestinal polyps--benign growths that sometimes lead to cancer--can be inherited, increasing the evidence that colon cancer can be inherited as well. Doctors said the discovery is likely to lead to better screening programs that may reduce cancer of the colon and rectum, second only to lung cancer as the most common internal cancer. The findings by the University of Utah Medical Center were published in the New England Journal of Medicine.