Cancer and Your Genes

Various cancers tend to run in families. The pattern for this may be as simple as one family member getting diagnosed, and finding out that someone closer to you has it, too. Or it can be that the cancer appears at least once or twice every generation. Whatever the case, there are various cancers which are hereditary in nature.

Yet that does not mean that a family with a history of the cancer already has it mapped into their genes. Sometimes, while the cancer do tend to occur in families, they are actually environmental in nature. An example of this is …read more