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Cancer and family history
My mother is a breast cancer survivor. She was diagnosed at the age of 70.
My grandfather (father's father) was diagnosed with colon cancer at the age of 85.
My uncle (father's cousin) was diagnosed with prostate cancer at the age of 72.
Does this put me and my brothers(I don't have sister) at a higher risk of developing prostate or colon cancer?
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Not exactly..
2 consecutive generation if have history of familial cancers then risk is certainly more.. still u can get screening tests done esp if any chronic symptom is present
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