Am i at risk of developing cancer in future since both my parents died from this terrible disease...and does meat eating cause cancer? please help!

Cancer screening: See your primary care doctor and make sure you are up to date with all recommended cancer screenings, with special attention to the type of cancer your parents suffered.

Family history: Family history of cancer is important especially if the cancer affected the family member at younger age ( 40 or younger). That may indicate that perhaps there is an inherited cancer syndrome in the family. What kind of caner affected your parents and how old they were when they are diagnosed. You can calculate your personal cancer risk using the gail model calculator. Decrease processed red meat.

No: Risk of lung cancer may be higher if a person's parents, siblings (brothers or sisters), or children have had lung cancer. This increased risk could come from one or more things. They may share behaviors, like smoking. They may live in the same place where there are carcinogens such as radon. They may have inherited increased risk in their genes.

Meat eating is safe: I'm very glad you asked. There are thousands of different types of cancer and most have little hereditary tendency. Despite all the hoopla over meat as a risk factor for colon cancer, the last several studies showed no real effect; the prostate cancer link isn't holding up either, and the biggest iimpartial studies do not support the idea that vegetarianism protects from cancer or prolongs life.