In 2006, he was diagnosed with a rare unrelated skull-bone tumor, chordoma, for which he underwent neurosurgery and proton-beam radiation . " New York Times ", " Los Angeles Times ", The Awl, NPR and " Men's Health ".
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Examples of autosomal dominant cancer syndromes are autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome ( Canale-Smith syndrome ), Beckwith Wiedemann syndrome ( although 85 % of cases are sporadic ), Birt Hogg Dub?syndrome, Carney syndrome, familial chordoma, Cowden syndrome, renal cell cancer ( HPRCC ), hereditary paraganglioma-pheochromocytoma syndrome, retinoblastoma, tuberous sclerosis, von Hippel-Lindau disease and Wilm's tumor.
