Knowing the types of cancer that family members have been diagnosed with can help individuals understand their own risk of cancer — and how to reduce it.
But familial cancer risk isn't just about genes, Laura Koehly, a senior investigator at the National Human Genome Research Institute within the National Institutes of Health, told TODAY.
"It's shared biology. It's also shared environments, and those shared environments might reflect behaviors," she explained."We learn from our parents and our siblings, and then we transfer that sometimes to our children. Understanding all of these different components that make up family health history as a risk evaluation tool can give us insights into the things that we have control over and the things that we don't.
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