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No skin cancer is not hereditary.

However it is reasonable to assume that if one member of a family has a predisposition to cancer of one type or another it may well exist in other members of that family, as is the case with many disorders.

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No it is from being outside & the sun or tanning rays burn & damage your skin

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Yes. Huntington's Disease is one example.

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