is lung cancer hereditary

cancer is hereditary?

My sister has breast cancer, cervical else has my mother's throat, lungs, my father had some people in my family for the brain, its all over.

A disease is an inherited disease caused by an abnormality in the DNA of an individual who is genetically inherited. Although cancer is not caused by inheritance of a single gene like cystic fibrosis or sickle cell disease, some cancers arise multifactorial inheritance, which is a type of inheritance that is caused by a combination of environmental factors and mutations in multiple genes. So, yes, some types cancers are hereditary. The current scientific view is that cancer is a disease caused by DNA mutations or changes in how genes are expressed in some, thus by its very nature, cancer can be inherited. However, they also must understand that these mutations may be somatic cells (cells of her beautiful body everywhere except for their reproductive organs) or can be in somatic and germ cells (cells that produce eggs and sperm). If the genetic abnormality that is contribute to cancer development or in germ cells, this defect can be passed from parents to children in the design and is considered hereditary. Realize that everyone has a chance of developing cancer and that most cancers occur sporadically or randomly in the cells somatic only. However, because the hereditary cancer shows multifactorial inheritance, a person who has inherited a genetic mutation, as described previously, not necessarily develop cancer but are at increased risk of developing cancer during their lifetime. A wide range of legacy components that increase the risk of developing cancer, but the type of cancer with a strong hereditary component (called familial cancer), breast cancers are ovarian cancer and caused by inherited mutations in BRCA1 or BRCA2, colon cancer or caused by familial adenomatous polyposis, inherited a mutation in the APC gene. The inheritance of mutations in the APC gene lead to the development of colon cancer among more than 90% of patients when they are 40 and is the classic example of a hereditary cancer .-

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