Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia
Kidney cancer due to a gene than can be transmitted from parent to child.
The vast majority of kidney cancer cases are not hereditary, but a small proportion of renal cell cancers are caused by hereditary syndromes.
Among these syndromes are: von Hippel-Lindau syndrome, Birt-Hogg-Dube syndrome, Hereditary papillary renal cell carcinoma.
All of these syndromes are inherited in an autosomal dominant manner.