label: Hereditary Pancreatic Carcinoma
label_lc: hereditary pancreatic carcinoma
description: A carcinoma that arises from the pancreas in a patient with a family history of pancreatic cancer.  In the minority of cases, patients have recognized genetic syndromes (e.g., FAMMM syndrome, BRCA2 syndrome, Peutz-Jeghers syndrome) however, in the majority of cases the genetic cause has not been identified.