title: Heredity of cancer.
abstract: Hereditary factors are linked with cancer in four ways: by the association of specific chromosomal abnormalities with certain types of cancer, the increase of cancer incidence in some hereditary disorders, the increase of susceptibility to cancer in certain genotypes, and by direct inheritance of some rare malignant neoplasms.
mesh_terms: D002875:Chromosomes / Q000502:physiology; D030342:Genetic Diseases, Inborn / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics* / Q000503:physiopathology; D012306:Risk