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Part one: Current aspects of cancer etiology

Heredity of cancer

Pages 983-987 | Published online: 20 Oct 2009
 

Abstract

Hereditary factors are linked with cancer, in four ways: by the association of specific chromosomal abnormalities with certain types of cancer, the increase of cancer incidence in some hereditary disorders, the increase of susceptibility to cancer in certain genotypes, and by direct inheritance of some rare malignant neoplasms.

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