«Ten of my closest
relatives died from cancer, and they tell me it has nothing to do with radiation,» one former resident tells me.
Not exact matches
Like many doctors who pursue oncology, he became interested in the disease after a
relative died from breast
cancer.
She had several risk factors for inherited
cancer, including
relatives who had
died from breast and ovarian
cancer.
It was a tragic family tradition passed down through four generations: Nine
relatives died from pancreatic
cancer, and nine others developed precancerous lesions.
If those materials do nt reveal anything useful, ask for a pathology or autopsy report
from the hospital where your
relative died, says Marc Brand, MD, surgical director of the Sandra Rosenberg Registry for Heredity and Familial Colon
Cancer at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.
Having had
relatives all around me
die from one type of
cancer or another, I've dug deep to find out what causes it, and how I can avoid being the next victim.
Prostate
cancer patients had a 28 percent higher
relative chance of having a fatal heart attack and a 21 percent increased chance of
dying from heart disease.