Hello, my Aunt (my father's first maternal cousin, ie my grandmother's sister's daughter - I'm sorry she got so confused) died recently from breast cancer. What is the probability that I will get cancer too? And besides the hereditary factor, what are the other causes of the disease? I am 15. As far as I know, there have been no other cancer patients in our family.
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23%, or 4%. Or 62%. Or 3%. Abe girl, first of all we are not doctors and secondly - there is a lineage, but this does not mean that you have a genetic disease. In addition, if you smoke (for example) you have a much higher chance of lung cancer than if you do not smoke. As well as if you drink - for cancer of the liver and pancreas. If you pick moles - for skin cancer. If you sleep indiscriminately with this and that and catch HPV - for uterine cancer. If ... Well, watch your lessons!
I think some tests can show this, but I'm not sure, ask a doctor.
A specific answer to your question and a doctor can hardly give, and what is left for the people writing here. But there is no point in panicking! Just take care of your health, go for a preventive examination at your personal doctor, get a blood test from time to time, go to a gynecologist for prophylactic purposes, but of course, without this becoming a fixed idea. Unfortunately, no one is insured against this disease, you can just try to refrain from harmful habits that increase the risk - smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, unhealthy eating, etc. If these thoughts bother you a lot, my advice is to you go to your GP and tell him, so maybe you'll calm down.
Don't worry, my mother died of cancer, but I never got sick. On the contrary, I am in excellent health!