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A member asked:
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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