Familial Cancer Susceptibility Syndromes
Individual PDQ summaries focused on the genetics of specific cancers contain detailed information about many known cancer susceptibility syndromes. Although this is not a complete list, the following cancer susceptibility syndromes are discussed in the PDQ cancer genetics summaries:
- Basal Cell Nevus Syndrome, Gorlin Syndrome, Gorlin-Goltz Syndrome, or Nevoid Basal Cell Carcinoma Syndrome (Genetics of Skin Cancer).
- Bloom Syndrome (Genetics of Skin Cancer).
- Breast/Ovarian Cancer, Hereditary (Genetics of Breast and Ovarian Cancer).
- Colon Cancer, Hereditary Nonpolyposis or Lynch Syndrome (Genetics of Colorectal Cancer).
- Cowden Syndrome (Genetics of Breast and Ovarian Cancer; Genetics of Colorectal Cancer).
- Fanconi Anemia (Genetics of Skin Cancer).
- Hyperparathyroidism, Familial (Genetics of Medullary Thyroid Cancer).
- Li-Fraumeni Syndrome (Genetics of Breast and Ovarian Cancer).
- Medullary Thyroid Cancer, Familial (Genetics of Medullary Thyroid Cancer).
- Melanoma, Hereditary (Genetics of Skin Cancer).
- Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 2A, 2B (Sipple Syndrome) (Genetics of Medullary Thyroid Cancer).
- Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome (Genetics of Colorectal Cancer; Genetics of Breast and Ovarian Cancer).
- Polyposis, Familial Adenomatous and Attenuated Familial Adenomatous Polyposis (Genetics of Colorectal Cancer).
- Polyposis, Familial Juvenile (Genetics of Colorectal Cancer).
- Polyposis, MYH-Associated (Genetics of Colorectal Cancer).
- Prostate Cancer, Hereditary (Genetics of Prostate Cancer).
- Xeroderma Pigmentosum (Genetics of Skin Cancer).