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Patients with this syndrome have an increased susceptibility to renal cell carcinoma, lung cysts, spontaneous pneumothorax, and benign skin hamartomas, and its diagnosis is not easy and consequently underestimated. Several mutations have been identified in <jats:italic>FLCN<\/jats:italic> gene, among which the majority of alterations are frameshift (insertion\/deletion), nonsense, or splice-site mutations that generally produce unfunctional truncated FLCN proteins. Our aim is to present a case of a BHDS family whose proband is a 56-year-old patient who has been experiencing multiple disorders, has an <jats:italic>FLCN<\/jats:italic> genetic mutation, and has also been identified to have a pathogenic variant in <jats:italic>BRCA2<\/jats:italic> gene. 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