Hereditary cancer syndromes contribute to only 5% of all cancers but are important to recognize due to the long-term surveillance and follow up required for these patients.
Autosomal recessive
Autosomal dominant
- familial adenomatous polyposis syndrome
- familial breast and ovarian cancer (BRCA 1 and BRCA 2 related cancers)
- familial retinoblastoma
- hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) also known as Lynch syndrome
- Li-Fraumeni syndrome
- multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2a
- neurofibromatosis type 1
- Peutz-Jeghers syndrome
- Von Hippel-Lindau disease
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