Rare Cancers
How much does having a BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutation increase a woman's risk of breast and ovarian cancer? What are the chances of acquiring colon cancer if your grandmother had it?
A small portion of identified cancers result from genetic changes that are inherited- passed down from parents to their children. Individuals with an inherited gene mutation tendency have an increased risk of developing cancer in their lifetime. However, not everyone who is born with a tendency for a gene mutation will develop cancer.
- AIC - See Aicardi syndrome
- Aicardi syndrome
- Aicardi's syndrome - See Aicardi syndrome
- Bannayan-Riley-Ruvalcaba syndrome
- Bloom syndrome
- Bourneville disease - See Tuberous sclerosis
- Brain Tumor-Polyposis Syndrome 1 - See Turcot syndrome
- BRCA1, familial breast-ovarian cancer susceptibility 1
- BTP1 Syndrome - See Turcot syndrome
- BTPS1 - See Turcot syndrome
- Cowden syndrome
- Familial adenomatous polyposis
- Familial medullary thyroid carcinoma
- Fanconi anemia
- Hereditary Diffuse Gastric Cancer
- Li-fraumeni syndrome
- Lynch syndrome
- Male Turner syndrome - See Noonan syndrome
- Muir-Torre syndrome
- Multiple endocrine neoplasia 2
- multiple hamartoma syndrome - See Cowden syndrome
- Neurofibromatosis, type II
- Nijmegen breakage syndrome (NBS)
- Noonan syndrome
- Paragangliomas
- Peutz-Jeghers syndrome
- Saethre-Chotzen syndrome
- Sotos syndrome
- Tuberous sclerosis
- Turcot syndrome
- Turner-like syndrome - See Noonan syndrome
- Ullrich-Noonan syndrome - See Noonan syndrome
- Von hippel-lindau syndrome
- Wilms Tumor
