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I know that cancer is not hereditary but why when someone in a family for example gets breast cancer, the other females in her family most go check up and do mammography? If cancer is not hereditary then being relative with the person who has cancer is not a deal and no check up is needed.
Please take a look at the following RG links.
Chapter BRCA1 and BRCA2 hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome
Article Underdiagnosis of Hereditary Breast Cancer: Are Genetic Test...
Scientists have discovered inherited gene mutations for certain types of cancer, including:
- adrenal gland cancer
- bone cancer
- brain and spinal cord cancers
- breast cancer
- colorectal cancer
- eye cancer (melanoma of the eye in adults and retinoblastoma in children)
- fallopian tube cancer
- kidney cancer, including Wilms tumour in children
- some types of leukemia and lymphoma
- hepatoblastoma (a rare type of liver cancer that affects children)
- neuroblastoma
- neuroendocrine tumours
- oropharyngeal cancer
- ovarian cancer
- pancreatic cancer
- parathyroid gland cancer
- pituitary gland cancer
- prostate cancer
- rhabdomyosarcoma
- skin cancers
- small intestine cancer
- soft tissue sarcoma
- stomach cancer
- testicular cancer
- thyroid cancer
- uterine cancer
Some gene mutations increase the risk of developing more than one type of cancer. For example, a gene mutation that increases a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer may also increase her risk of ovarian cancer.
Inherited gene mutations are often linked to a family cancer syndrome. Most are rare. Not everyone with a family cancer syndrome develops cancer.
Research is continuing to tell us more about specific genes that may put people at higher risk of developing these and other types of cancer.
The genes we are born with may contribute to our risk of developing certain types of cancer, including breast, ovarian, colorectal, and prostate cancer.
Yes, cancer is hereditary as nicely presented above. You definitely have the wrong premonition regarding. Aside from the molecular chitchat, you can learn from Angelina Jolie (presuming you know the film star).
She was diagnosed with a mutant gene which makes her at 87% risk of breast cancer and 50% risk of ovarian cancer. She has her maternal lineage with a list of these cancers, so her decision to undergo mastectomy and oophorectomy as a preventive medical treatment is completely justified.
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