Cases of a cancer in your families?

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I often wonder about environmental causes and how they affect families. Do we really even know if different cancers are indeed genetic, or could it be an environmental cause affecting the family due to proximity? It's probably a combination of both. I do remember seeing a map of breast cancer incidents a while ago and there were interesting cluster patterns near areas known to be environmentally toxic.

i think my mom had breast cancer, but she had it removed. my great grandma died of it also i think. i dont know if anyone else has it, because i dont keep up with my family all too often

My mum had cancer of the uterus, when my sister and I were little.

My great-aunt had cervical cancer. Now her daughter (my aunt) has it too. My great granddad had prostate cancer and my grandma has a non-melanoma type of skin cancer. A few years ago my mum had a tumor removed from her bladder and the doctors still don't know what the heck it was.

I think my maternal grandmother's husband had mesothelioma.

My mom has something under the nail of her left thumb she ignored for 2 years It may be a melanoma. I hope it's something less serious, though.

Almost everyone on my mother's side of the family perished from some kind of cancer because they all lived around a stupid paper plant. I don't have any particular concern about cancer because I wasn't raised around the paper plant or around anywhere so polluting and destructive. It's pretty normal for aspies to develop and nourish fears and anxiety about illness and death. I have thanatophobia, which is a fear of my own mortality and death, and my fifth grade aspie son has concerns about what will happen when the Sun goes supernova.

Off of the top of my head;

Mom's side:

*Grandfather- Prostate/survivor
*Grandmother- Pancreatic/died
*Great Aunt- Stomach?/full remission using natural methods. Died under mysterious circumstances during unrelated routine surgery.
*Mom- Breast/survivor (would never go through chemotherapy again. Fully accepts the possibility of death)

Dad's side:

*Grandfather- Lung/died (refused treatment. Accepted and enjoyed his final days with family)
*Aunt- Breast/survivor
*Uncle- Brain/died
*Other Aunt- Breast/survivor

I'm pretty sure I left some out. I don't even think about it. I will cross that bridge if it happens to arrive, and deal with it.

I do hope I'm not going to join them - my lymph glands, especially the one under my left armpit, hurt whenever I touch them. But I read that in case of cancer, they wouldn't rather have hurt so it's most likely an inflammation in my organism and I'll have to get a gastroscopy.

I am terrified of cancer! I always think I have it. My father's father (who passed away before I was born) had cancer. Lung cancer, maybe...but I am not sure. My father's brother also had cancer. He lost part of his jaw/neck because of it, but I think it was also in his lungs when he died. My mother's father who I was VERY close to died a couple years ago from small-cell lung cancer that quickly went to his bones and his brain. It was a very devastating time for everyone.