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The biology of inherited cancer
1Department of Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, SE-171 76, Sweden.
Seminars in Cancer Biology
|September 1, 2000
Abstract:
This issue of Cancer Biology is focused on inherited cancer. In this short introduction to the topic we give a brief overview and list genes and the corresponding inherited cancer syndromes. We discuss the basic mechanisms of inherited cancer and the clinical implication of predictive genetic testing for cancer.