Hereditary cancer.

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Cancer cases are often clustered in certain families and pedigree analysis indicates that at least 5% of cancer patients have a genetic predisposition to the disease. During the past decade the basic mechanisms for hereditary cancer have been outlined and a large number of the genes involved have been identified. This rapid development has changed the clinical management of cancer families, which now includes...

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