- Concept UI
- M0014613
- Scope Note
- 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.
- Terms
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Neoplastic Syndromes, Hereditary
Preferred Term
Term UI
T028004
Date01/01/1999
LexicalTag
NON
ThesaurusID
NLM (1987)
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Hereditary Cancer Syndromes
Term UI
T028001
Date06/23/1986
LexicalTag
NON
ThesaurusID
UNK (19XX)
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Cancer Syndromes, Hereditary
Term UI
T028002
Date06/23/1986
LexicalTag
NON
ThesaurusID
UNK (19XX)
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Hereditary Neoplastic Syndromes
Term UI
T028003
Date06/23/1986
LexicalTag
NON
ThesaurusID
UNK (19XX)