Question 1

help please! is cancer hereditary?

Accepted Answer

In many cases: Some sub-types of common cancers are hereditary such as brca- breast cancer, lynch syndrome (colon cancer).

Question 2

please suggest what types of cancer are hereditary?

Accepted Answer

Breast, ovarian, prostate, and colon: Breast, ovarian, prostate, and colon, childhood cancers are to name a few.  More detailed information and a useful link is attached below on cancer.Org

http://www.Cancer.Org/cancer/cancercauses/geneticsandcancer/heredity-and-cancer.

Question 3

is cancer hereditary? or can it just happen to anyone?

Accepted Answer

Happen to anyone: In fact, it's inevitable if a multicelular organisms survives long enough without dying of something else. There are some genes you inherit that increase the risk, but most cancers "just happen" or result in part from environment.

Question 4

when it comes to cancer, how does the hereditary thing work?

Accepted Answer

Genes: With cancer, there are certain genes that are inherited and are involved in the cancer process. There are certain familial syndromes where one can predict the inheritance patterns and the probability that a particular trait will become apparent in the offspring. For example, the von hippel lindau  or the neurofibromatosis i syndromes are associated with tumors.Inheritance patterns can be predicted.

Question 5

do you know are most cancers both inherited and environmental?

Accepted Answer

Enviromental: About 5% of malignancies are inherited such as with the BRACA gene or with hereditary bowel malignancies.  90-95% of cancers evolve over several years from exposure to  carcinogens and viruses.  In many cancers an EBV infection is also necessary since this virus has sequences that stimulate telomerase activity which adds the immortality that tumors need.

Question 6

can you list some sorts of cancer that young teenagers might get?

Accepted Answer

Several common ones: Osteosarcoma, ewing's sarcoma, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, hodgkin's, seminoma / dysgerminoma, medulloblastoma and pilocytic astrocytoma are the first that come to mind. Wilms and neuroblastoma more affect younger patients but may still appear at age 13-14.

Question 7

how can  the risk of recurrence of sporadic cancer differ from that of inherited cancer?

Accepted Answer

It does not: There is no such bearing or relationship.

Question 8

please list the types of food which help avoid in a big effect being diagnosed with cancer.

Accepted Answer

Fruits and veggies: Berries, grapes, broccoli, cabbage, tomatoes, tea, legumes, garlic and whole grains.

Question 9

how is colon cancer inherited?

Accepted Answer

Genes: Most colon cancers are not inherited. However, there is a subset which is associated with inherited genetic abnormalities such as hereditary polyposis a this hereditary non polyposis gene (hnpp). There are also syndromes that make you susceptible to a variety of different cancers including colon cancer such as lynch syndrome.

Question 10

is bowel cancer hereditary?

Accepted Answer

Somehow yes: There is some genetic predisposition in families with hx. Of  colorectal cancer. Diet also plays a rol ( low fiber diet increases cancer). Familiar poliposis increases chances of colon cancer. Colon polyps may degenerate in cancer. Small intestine cancers are rare and difficult to find. In general there are families affected by cancers and families affected by atherosclerosis but both together too.

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