Hereditary predisposition to cancer.

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Both hereditary and environmental factors influence the risk of cancer. Four risk categories, or oncodemes, can exist for a particular kind of cancer, depending upon the presence of neither, one, or both factors: (1) spontaneous, or background; (2) hereditary; (3) environmental; (4) interactive. In the second, mutation imparts a high relative risk, but a generally low attributable risk; in the fourth, the...

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