title: [Hereditary ovarian cancer].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This article reviews the topic of hereditary ovarian cancer, describes persons at risk of hereditary disposition to cancer and gives instructions for genetic counselling and molecular analysis, including contacts to specialized centres in the Czech Republic.
  
  
  METHODS
  Review.
  
  
  METHODS
  Institute of Biochemistry and Experimental Oncology, Charles University in Prague.
  
  
  METHODS
  Hereditary ovarian cancer occurs in three autosomal dominant syndromes: appropriate hereditary ovarian cancer (HOC), hereditary breast and ovarian cancer (HBOC) and hereditary non-poliposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC). Physician in practice or specialist at the clinic should focus interest on patients form families with frequent occurrence of breast and/or ovarian cancer, patients with early onset disease or tumour duplicity (breast and ovarian cancer). Hereditary disposition to ovarian (and breast) cancer could be assessed by molecular genetic analysis of two main susceptibility genes BRCA1 and BRCA2, or other genes in families with diverse tumours. Molecular genetic analysis should be in any cases indicated by experienced clinical genetic. In the Czech Republic, the consensus of genetic and clinical care of risk patients was published and specialized centres for families with hereditary predisposition were settled in Prague and Brno.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Persons with hereditary susceptibility to cancer constitute noted group where painstaking dispensarisation and preventive care may prevent malignancy or detect it in the early stage.
authors.affiliation: Gynekologicko-porodnická klinika 1 LF UK a VFN, Praha. michal.zikan@lf1.cuni.cz
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zikán
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Foretová
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Cibula
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kotlas
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Pohlreich
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics; D005260:Female; D019398:Genes, BRCA1; D024522:Genes, BRCA2; D006801:Humans; D009154:Mutation; D009386:Neoplastic Syndromes, Hereditary / Q000235:genetics; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics*