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Descriptor English:   Neoplastic Syndromes, Hereditary 
Descriptor Spanish:   Síndromes Neoplásicos Hereditarios 
Descriptor Portuguese:   Síndromes Neoplásicas Hereditárias 
Synonyms English:   Cancer Syndromes, Hereditary  
Tree Number:   C04.700
C16.320.700
Definition English:   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. 
Indexing Annotation English:   do not use /blood supply /chem /second /secret /ultrastruct; coord IM with specific hereditary organ/neopl term (IM) or specific hereditary histol type (IM)
History Note English:   87 
Allowable Qualifiers English:  
blood cerebrospinal fluid
chemically induced classification
congenital complications
diet therapy diagnosis
drug therapy economics
ethnology embryology
enzymology epidemiology
etiology genetics
history immunology
metabolism microbiology
mortality nursing
pathology prevention & control
physiopathology parasitology
psychology radiography
rehabilitation radionuclide imaging
radiotherapy surgery
therapy urine
ultrasonography veterinary
virology  
Record Number:   19258 
Unique Identifier:   D009386 

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