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Please suggest what types of cancer are hereditary?
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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.
Answered 3/12/2020
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