Facial Features of Hereditary Cancer Predisposition.

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In the age of telehealth medicine, an individual's facial features may provide the only physical clues signaling the presence of a heritable cancer predisposition syndrome. These syndromes include APC-associated polyposis, Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome, CYLD cutaneous syndrome, hereditary leiomyomatosis and renal cell cancer, multiple endocrine neoplasia, neurofibromatosis type 1, Peutz-Jeghers syndrome, PTEN hamartoma...

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• Genetic Testing
• Genetic Predisposition to Disease
• Face
• APC gene
• CYLD gene
• PTEN gene