Welcome to our online portal for cancer predisposition syndromes!

Prof. Christian Kratz (left) is Director of the Clinic for Pediatric Haematology and Oncology at Hannover Medical School. Prof. Dr. med. Stefan Pfister (right) is Director of the Hopp Children’s Tumor Center (KiTZ) in Heidelberg. Together they lead the largest German research consortium on cancer predisposition syndromes.

People with cancer predisposition syndromes (CPS) have a significantly increased risk of cancer for genetic reasons. Around 10% of all children and adolescents with cancer are affected. In adults, CPS is sometimes only diagnosed after several cases of cancer.

People with CPS face major health challenges in their lives and need to be treated individually. We, a team of scientists and pediatric oncologists, have made it our mission to help these people.

We do this by offering advice, early detection and treatment in our outpatient clinics. We offer medical professionals extensive information material on the treatment of their own CPS patients. And we conduct research. Because research is the essential prerequisite for better early detection and treatment options for CPS. And these are urgently needed.

If you have any questions about cancer predisposition syndromes or would like to support our work, we look forward to hearing from you!

Christian Kratz & Stefan Pfister

Information für People with CPS

Information for Professionals

Information on CPS Research

Help on Site – our CPS Outpatient Departments

If you or your child are suspected of having or have been diagnosed with a disease with an increased risk of cancer, we will be happy to inform you about the measures you need to take. And, of course, we will also help you to implement these measures. Patients often come to us for a second opinion. We offer you the following:

Information on cancer predisposition syndromes
Recommendations for early detection examinations
Implementation of early detection examinations
Treatment according to the latest medical research
Psychological support

You can find out how to make an appointment with us in Hanover or Heidelberg and which documents we need from you on our outpatient clinic page. Simply use the following button.

To the outpatient department page

Find out more about our outpatient departments

Information for (medical) professionals

If you are treating patients who are suspected or have already been diagnosed with CPS, we will be happy to help you. We offer you extensive information material on our website. This includes

We are also available to answer your technical questions at any time. Please just get in touch with us!

CPS Research

If we knew everything in medicine, we wouldn’t have to do research. But we still know too little, especially in the area of cancer predisposition syndromes. However, this basic knowledge is crucial for new treatment options, better early detection tests and the highest possible quality of life with CPS. So we are working flat out on our research. The following four buttons will take you to the research section of our website. This is largely aimed at healthcare professionals. If you, as a patient, have any questions about the content here, simply contact us!