Cases of a cancer in your families?

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My aunt died of lung cancer last year, but that's what she wanted - she smoked until the very day that she died.

Oh... I just remembered. My uncle died in January from brain cancer. He lived across the country, so I don't think about it much.

My family is low on cancer genes - we've seen one case of leukemia in one of my distant cousins and some lung cancer in the heavy smokers.

Our alternative genetic burdens: heart disease on the mother's side, addiction on both sides, autoimmune disease on the mother's side, female reproductive issues on the father's side, and mental illness on both sides.

My great uncle had bladder cancer, my grandmother had breast cancer and my mom has cancer. I forget what type but her own immune system was attacking her own body and she was in pain and tired and sore and she had to get therapy for it. Now she is recovering from it. I forget what the therapy was called but it gets bumped into her body to kill the cells. But she will always have it and she will get better and live normally again and go back to work but she won't consider herself sick.

My uncle's wife had a brain tumor and she died from it. My grandmother's dad died when she was 15 because he smoked. I think he had lunge cancer.

lung cancer for one grandfather(still alive, he's a smoker), brain cancer for the other(never knew him).
My father had skin cancer, but he got it young and recovered.

One of my grandmothers had colon cancer, but they caught it early and she got by.
The other grandmother incidentally has a lot of stomach and colon problems.


But I feel if my grandfather(the smoker) didn't smoke he could have easily lived to 90.

The neurotic aspect of my family probably puts us at a greater risk then any cancer, I think tbh. (but that's off topic)

Both my maternal grandparents died from lung cancer years before I was born. They were both heavy smokers. My paternal grandfather was also a heavy smoker, but he never got cancer, as far as I know. Other than that, I think my family is cancer free; there are relatives that I don't know, of course, so perhaps they have it, but that's it.

My mother's parents both died of cancer (lung cancer and skin cancer).

My uncle died barely a couple of days ago, I think he had prostate cancer but we aren't sure. His mother died of her female parts cancer too in the 90's.

My father and my maternal grandmother died of the same quite rare type of gallbladder cancer. Which is a bit weird, they weren't related in any way. It's only fair to say though that they hated each other's guts so I guess that ending the same way was some type of higher justice. There are other similarities too - I think that my grandmother was the main source of the autistic genes in the family of which I got a bucketful and everyone else, including my mother, got only a pinch, while my father was, I think, on the borderline of being an Aspie. Maybe that was their reason for waging war on one another.
Anyway, in both the cases the cancer developed after at least two decades of having gallstones which weren't treated because they both were afraid of surgery. I've learned one thing - get rid of the blighters before they get at you.

my paternal grandma died of pancreatic cancer.
my maternal grandma had breast cancer recently.
& i think my maternal great-uncle uncle died of cancer as well, though i'm not entirely sure.

My dad died of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Not one of the hereditary ones, as far as I know. They thought, in his case, it may have been down to agricultural labor when he was younger; some of the older pesticides were heavily carcinogenic and aren't now used any more. But most cancers have multiple causes. (I work in cancer registry, and I have some awareness of how complicated this all is...the lymphomas and leukemias are especially complicated as there are so many different sub-types, all with slightly different risk factors and prognoses.)

Generally speaking, the time to be wary is if you have several close relatives on the same side of the family who all died of cancer. Particularly if it was the same one, but there are certain familial syndromes that lead to clusters of various different types. The risk is greater the younger they died, as cancers in younger people tend to be more aggressive. Also, women should look at their aunts and grandma on their father's side for breast and ovarian cancers; commonly women with clusters of these in their mother's family get checked out for the BRCA gene mutations, but you can also inherit them from your dad.

Both of my parents had cancer, mom-breast, dad-lung. My aunt had skin cancer. I'm not too sure about my extended family, but at least one of my cousins had some form of cancer as well.

Both of my maternal grandparents died from lung cancer, but I'm not too worried about that. They were exceptionally heavy smokers, which I assume was primarily what caused the cancer. I don't smoke at all, so I don't worry about it.

Other than that, as far as I know only one other family member has had cancer; a maternal great aunt died young (she was about 35 years old) from skin cancer.

Often worry about cancer but no known cases so far.

Liver, Prostate, Lung, and Breast cancers. All but one proved fatal, and that one is still pending.....early intervention folks or the consequences are a growth of a foreign cluster of cells quickly achieving an"angiogenesis."

My grandfather was one of seven children: four boys, three girls. One boy died as a child, the other three of colon cancer. All the girls (women) died of breast cancer. We're thinking it was something environmental.