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Why Might A Person With Bloom Syndrome Have A Predisposition To Cancer?

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Why Might A Person With Bloom Syndrome Have A Predisposition To Cancer? The genetic abnormality in Bloom syndrome causes problems with DNA repair, resulting in a high number of chromosome breaks and rearrangements. The abnormal DNA repair is responsible for the increased risk for cancer. How a genetic syndrome can lead to a predisposition to

Which Types Of Cancer Are Hereditary?

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Which Types Of Cancer Are Hereditary? Breast cancer. Colon cancer. Prostate cancer. Ovarian cancer. Uterine cancer. Melanoma (a type of skin cancer) Pancreatic cancer. Are all cancers hereditary? Hereditary Cancer Syndromes Inherited genetic mutations play a major role in about 5 to 10 percent of all cancers. Researchers have associated mutations in specific genes with