Lung cancer is a disease with a unique genetic pattern and is occasionally related to hereditary syndromes such as Lynch, Louis-Bar, and Li-Fraumeni. In some patients, germinal mutations may be discovered in combination with somatic alterations. For instance, Li-Fraumeni syndrome often reveals a mixture of and mutations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHereditary papillary renal carcinoma (HPRC) is a rare autosomal dominant disease characterized by the development of multiple papillary type I renal cell carcinomas. This hereditary kidney cancer form is caused by activating mutations in . Descriptions of patients with HPRC are scarce in the world literature, and no cases have been described in open sources in Russia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: A giant congenital melanocytic nevus (GCMN) is found in 0.1% of live-born infants. If present, the lesion has a chance of about 6% to develop into malignant melanoma.
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