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title: "Oncology"
description: "Cancer is a disease that results from the abnormal and uncontrolled growth of cells. It can affect the entire population and is caused by genetic alterations in a certain group of cells (a primary tum..."
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date: 2023-04-21
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# Oncology

Cancer is a disease that results from the abnormal and uncontrolled growth of cells. It can affect the entire population and is caused by genetic alterations in a certain group of cells (a primary tumour), which can also spread (metastasis). Up to 10% of cancers have a hereditary genetic origin. That is, the genetic alterations are found in the germ cells (oocytes and spermatozoa) and are what we know as hereditary cancers.

Currently, we know of several dozen high and medium penetrance genes in which pathogenic changes increase the risk of cancer in carriers. It is important to identify people at risk from these alterations in order to provide them with genetic counselling and carry out the relevant genetic studies.

- Breast/ovarian cancer
- Endometrial cancer
- Prostate cancer
- Lynch syndrome
- Li–Fraumeni syndrome
- Hereditary colorectal cancer
- Hereditary polyposis syndrome
- Melanoma
- Multiple endocrine neoplasia
- Multiple paraganglioma
- Fanconi anaemia
- Xeroderma pigmentosum
- Hereditary clear cell renal cell carcinoma
- Hereditary paraganglioma-pheochromocytoma syndrome