Is cancer hereditary?
If you¡¯ve been diagnosed with cancer, you might be wondering how and why you got it.
Was it something that happened spontaneously? Does cancer run in your family? Could you have inherited it from a parent?
As a senior genetic counselor in MD Anderson¡¯s Clinical Cancer Genetics Program, I help patients understand how genetic testing can influence their care. And I hear the same questions often. Here, I¡¯ll explain more about...
