Is Cancer a genetic disease? - Dr. Sandeep P Nayak

Less than 10% of the cancers are hereditary. We suspect a hereditary cancers when there is a clustering of cancers in the family, that is when there is more than 2 cancers occurring in one single family or a young patients comes to us with concern. In such situations we suggest the young patient and the family to go for genetic counseling an d in that counseling we assess to as how much genetic tests needs to be done and based on the investigations and the genetic test we come to a conclusion whether there is any genetic factor involved or not. There are advantages to this. When there are genetic factor involved in this and there and we detect some cancer predisposition in your family, we can plan how to treat it. There are times when a surgery could help you prevent cancer. There are times a close follow up is just what is required. By doing genetic counseling, it is possible to save lives.

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Namste Sir
Sir in my family my two uncles died from cancer and now my father is also detected, sir is it genetic please suggest me or my family what are test we check