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Familial Cancer provides a forum for epidemiology, oncology, and genetics, focusing on the interests and needs of the clinician, geneticist, psychosocial worker, and surgical and medical oncologist. Encompasses all aspects of hereditary cancer.
A family cancer syndrome is a condition caused by changes in certain genes that are passed down from parents to children and make it more likely for family members to get certain types of cancer. Learn about various inherited conditions that can raise the risk of specific types of cancer.
When a gene change that greatly increases cancer risk runs in a family, it is often referred to as a family cancer syndrome, an inherited cancer syndrome, or a genetic cancer syndrome.
The Familial Cancer Program is designed to help identify people at increased risk of cancer due to hereditary factors and to help them understand their level of risk. Education and counseling about cancer risk, cancer risk reduction, effective screening and prevention options are key aspects of the program.
There are over 50 known hereditary cancer syndromes, some of which are better-known, such as Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer (HBOC) syndrome and Lynch syndrome, and others that are lesser-known, including familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) syndrome and von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) syndrome.
A hereditary cancer syndrome (familial/family cancer syndrome, inherited cancer syndrome, cancer predisposition syndrome, cancer syndrome, etc.) is a genetic disorder in which inherited genetic mutations in one or more genes predispose the affected individuals to the development of cancer and may also cause early onset of these cancers.
A family cancer syndrome, also called a hereditary cancer syndrome, is a rare disorder in which family members have a higher-than-average risk of developing a certain type or types of cancer. Family cancer syndromes are caused by inherited genetic variants in certain cancer-related genes.