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Is leukemia hereditary my grandmothers sister died from leukemia and now my youngest daughter died from it no one else in my family has it?

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Rarely: There are some families where there is an increased risk of leukemia or other cancers. This sounds like just random cases that happened to occur over a few generations in your family but I am sorry to hear about the loss of your daughter.

Answered 8/11/2017

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