Human Disease MESH is developed by UMLS. Further data from MedGen, OMIM, CTD
Term ID:
7863
Name:
Neoplastic Syndromes, Hereditary
Definition:
The condition of a pattern of malignancies within a family, but not every individual's necessarily having the same neoplasm. Characteristically the tumor tends to occur at an earlier than average age, individuals may have more than one primary tumor, the tumors may be multicentric, usually more than 25 percent of the individuals in direct lineal descent from the proband are affected, and the cancer predisposition in these families behaves as an autosomal dominant trait with about 60 percent penetrance.
Alternative IDs:
ParentIDs:
MESH:D009369|MESH:D030342
TreeNumbers:
C04.700 |C16.320.700
Synonyms:
Cancer Syndrome, Hereditary |Cancer Syndromes, Hereditary |Hereditary Cancer Syndrome |Hereditary Cancer Syndromes |Hereditary Neoplastic Syndrome |Hereditary Neoplastic Syndromes |Neoplastic Syndrome, Hereditary |Syndrome, Hereditary Cancer |Syndrome, Hereditar