With increasing age at tumor diagnosis in families with cancer, cancer is limited to fewer organs

Olsson H.L.

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Abstract

Hereditary cancer that has monogenic inheritance affects every tenth patient, on average, who is diagnosed with cancer, and it has been suggested based on twin studies, that approximately 30% of all cancer patients have a genetic predisposition to developing cancer. The author posited that familial syndromes become more organ specific with increasing age at tumour presentation to the point that very late in life, only a few organs are affected by tumours disease. The reason for this could be that the tumour originates from a more differentiated, organ-specific progenitor/stem cell later in life, while the progenitor/stem cell might be involved in organogenesis in different organs earlier in life. Examples are given for skin cancer and breast cancer. Summary: Patients with familial cancer who present with cancer at an older age at tumour presentation have a more organ restricted disease. This could be because the tumor has a more differentiated progenitor/stem cell origin. Examples are given for families with breast cancer, melanoma, and non-melanoma skin cancer.
Original languageEnglish
Article numberAbstract 2546
JournalCancer Research
Volume76
Issue number14 Suppl
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016
EventAmerican Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 107th Annual Meeting 2016 - New Orleans, United States
Duration: 2016 Apr 162016 Apr 20

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • Cancer and Oncology

Free keywords

  • breast cancer
  • cancer epidemiology
  • cancer patient
  • clinical study
  • diagnosis
  • hereditary tumor syndrome
  • female
  • genetic predisposition
  • human
  • melanoma
  • organogenesis
  • skin cancer
  • stem cell
  • tumor diagnosis
  • twin study

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