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Sporadic cancer

Term · Oncology and biomedicine · MLC-T-ONC-007933

  1. Cancer that occurs in people who do not have a family history of that cancer or an inherited change in their DNA that would increase their risk for that cancer.

  2. Cancer that occurs in people who do not have an inherited genetic variant that would increase their risk for that cancer. Sporadic cancer is sometimes used to differentiate cancers that occur in these people from cancers that occur in people who are known or likely to carry a high-risk variant that increases their risk for cancer. Sporadic cancer is also sometimes used to describe cancer that occurs in people who do not have a family history of that cancer or other associated cancers.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ONC-007933
FieldOncology and biomedicine
ReferencesNCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms; NCI Dictionary of Genetics Terms
Record as JSON 
{
  "id": "MLC-T-ONC-007933",
  "term": "Sporadic cancer",
  "field": "Oncology and biomedicine",
  "definitions": [
    "Cancer that occurs in people who do not have a family history of that cancer or an inherited change in their DNA that would increase their risk for that cancer.",
    "Cancer that occurs in people who do not have an inherited genetic variant that would increase their risk for that cancer. Sporadic cancer is sometimes used to differentiate cancers that occur in these people from cancers that occur in people who are known or likely to carry a high-risk variant that increases their risk for cancer. Sporadic cancer is also sometimes used to describe cancer that occurs in people who do not have a family history of that cancer or other associated cancers."
  ],
  "references": [
    "NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms",
    "NCI Dictionary of Genetics Terms"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/oncology/sporadic-cancer/"
}

Record 15,269 of 17,717 in Oncology and biomedicine terminology (MLC-0111). Request the full dataset.