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Hereditary Neoplastic Syndrome
Definition 1
The inherited predisposition toward getting a cancer (NCI Thesaurus)
Definition 2
Describes the clinical manifestations associated with a mutation conferring cancer susceptibility. (NCI Dictionary)
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