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heather crow was dying of lung cancer and had a law passed about smoking in restaurants
It depends on the specific type of cancer and other factors in you and your grandfathers' lives. Some cancers are highly influenced by heredity, but others, such as lung cancer from smoking or skin cancer from overexposure to the sun, are caused more by behaviors you may not share with your grandfather.
Depends. Lung cancer can be caused by environmental features, like bad air conditioning in one's working area, asbestos and/or smoke. Still the most common carsinogen that causes lung cancer is smoking. Passive smoking could be counted as an environmental factor in the cause of lung cancer, but when was the last time you heard of someone getting lung cancer from passive smoking?
In layman's terms... There is a potential for the disease to have a genetic component that can be passed onto the children. However it is quite rare for retinoblastoma to be caused by a genetic reason. In summary.. There is the potential but unlikely
Not a doctor.. but my friend whom I met at kindy-gym/playgroup in a small south coast town, didn't smoke and had two young children..(breast - fed etc...)..she passed away last year at age 37. Now again no doctor...... but really NOT a smoker and a healthy woman.. rip Kylie
He has five children. One passed from cancer in '96.
One son who has since passed from cancer.
no of course not. cancer is caused by a mutation in a cell that spreads and not in a sex cell witch is how genes are passed on.
No, you cannot get cancer from spit. Cancer is not transmitted by any bodily fluids. Cancer is caused by your lifestyle, diet, tobacco use, lack of exercise, sun exposure without sunscreen. It is not passed from person to person.
If mutations in occur in autosomes, they can not be passed on. If you get cancer from smoking, you can't pass that cancer on to your children. Only changes in sex cells can be passed on and these can cause enough of a change that would be evolutionary. Many people have changes in sex cells but most don't make any change as far as evolution. Perhaps a second thumb might happen but that probably will not change the human race.
No, heart disease is not communicable, in that it cannot be passed directly from person to person.
yes if anyone has genes of skin cancer it could be passed down to more family members. i had the same question because im doing a project on skin cancer.