Somatic inheritance.

"Epigenetic modifications often result in the
alteration of gene expression levels that determine cell fate, and
changes are somatically inherited and therefore can be passed on as
diseased cells replicate."

1.  see quoted text below

Sounds remarkably like Lamarckism to me.
That doesn't make it wrong - just maybe makes Lamarck just SLIGHTLY more
right :-).
(But only slightly)

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamarckism


2.   Key term appears to be "somatic inheritance", which turns up eg

http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1004/1004.3162.pdf

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