How to Know If You Have Brain Cancer, is it Hereditary?

A number of researchers have looked at how towith information going back to the early 1800s. While
know if you have brain cancer as regards the factorthere have been earlier studies that suggested there
of heredity. Is the likelihood of having or getting brainwas a hereditary relationship, this study effectively
cancer higher if someone in your family has it? Oneeliminated the shared environment possibility as the
problem with trying to substantiate a geneticcause. The study showed as much as a 4 times
relationship with brain cancer is separating out thegreater risk of contracting the disease if one has a
genetic connection from the fact that the personsfamily history of brain cancer.
are also in the same environment, especially if theyAfter considering the results of the study it makes it
are immediate family.that much more important to tell your doctor if there
Doctors have long agreed that the risk of gettingis any known brain cancer in your relatives or
breast, colon and prostate cancers did have aanywhere in your family history. While a family
relationship to a person's family history of suchhistory of cancer in no way means you have it or will
cancers. A study last year by the University of Utahget it, it can guide you and your doctor to take
and Tel Aviv University looked at family histories thatprecautionary steps to prevent onset of the disease.
went back 3 to 10 generations. Researchers haveAs well it could result in early detection if you indeed
concluded that there is a hereditary correlation withdo have it which medical experts agree is extremely
brain cancer and that persons with a family history ofvaluable. Cancer treatment and cure has a much
the cancer are at higher risk of getting the diseasehigher success rate in persons in which the cancer
themselves. The records of 1500 people were usedwas detected early.