Cancer.Net offers detailed information on the following hereditary conditions, which raise affected families' cancer risk for specific types of cancer. Learn more by selecting a syndrome name:

Ataxia-Telangiectasia [1]
Attenuated Familial Adenomatous Polyposis [2]
Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome [3]
Birt-Hogg-Dubé Syndrome [4]
Carney Complex [5]
Cowden Syndrome [6]
Familial Adenomatous Polyposis [7]
Familial Malignant Melanoma [8]
Gardner Syndrome [9]
Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer [10]
Hereditary Diffuse Gastric Cancer [11]
Hereditary Leiomyomatosis and Renal Cell Cancer [12]
Hereditary Mixed Polyposis Syndrome [13]
Hereditary Non-von Hippel Lindau Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma [14]
Hereditary Pancreatitis [15]
Hereditary Papillary Renal Cell Carcinoma [16]
Juvenile Polyposis Syndrome [17]
Li-Fraumeni Syndrome [18]
Lynch Syndrome [19]
Muir-Torre Syndrome [20]
Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 1 [21]
Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 2 [22]
MYH-Associated Polyposis [23]
Neurofibromatosis Type 1 [24]
Neurofibromatosis Type 2 [25]
Nevoid Basal Cell Carcinoma Syndrome [26]
Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome [27]
Tuberous Sclerosis Syndrome [28]
Turcot Syndrome [29]
Von Hippel-Lindau Syndrome [30]
Werner Syndrome [31]
Xeroderma Pigmentosa [32]

Last Updated: October 04, 2011