Parental Knowledge of Potential Cancer Risks From Exposure to ...

Breast Cancer Risk Factors | Patient Education - UCSF Health

The two most significant risk factors for breast cancer are being female at birth and being older. Other factors – including life events that affect the body's ...

The global burden of cancer attributable to risk factors, 2010–19

The leading risk factors at the most detailed level globally for risk-attributable cancer deaths and DALYs in 2019 for both sexes combined were ...

Family history and inherited cancer genes

Some faulty genes that increase the risk of cancer can be passed on from parent to child. These are inherited cancer gene changes. They occur when there is a ...

Cancer Risk of Low Dose Ionizing Radiation - Frontiers

Environmental exposure to 131I carries an increased risk of thyroid cancer [21] and the risk is the greatest to those who were children at the time of exposure ...

Kids at risk? When parents should consider hereditary cancer ...

Hereditary cancer risk information is inherently familial in nature. Parents state they desire genetic testing not only to guide their own ...

What Parents Should Know About CT Scans for Children:

populations exposed to radiation have demonstrated slight increases in cancer risk even at low levels of radiation exposure, particularly in children. To be ...

Understanding the Causes of Cancer - Cancer Research Institute

Exposure to environmental factors, such as certain chemicals and radiation can indeed influence your cancer risk. Let's explore some of these ...

Understanding Prostate Cancer Risk Factors: Age, Family History ...

It is estimated that inherited gene changes – those passed down by parents – account for approximately 10% of prostate cancers. Learn more about genes, genetic ...

Understanding parents uncertainty sources and management ...

Parents of a child or adolescent (CA) or young adult (YA) diagnosed with a hematologic cancer often face uncertainty. Managing uncertainty is critical to ...

Radiation Health Effects | US EPA

For example, in a population of one million people, an average one-percent increase in lifetime cancer risk for individuals could result in ...

Health Risks from Exposure to Low Levels of Ionizing Radiation ...

In addition to cancer, radiation exposure has been demonstrated to increase the risk of other diseases, particularly cardiovascular disease, in persons exposed ...

Breast Cancer: Symptoms, Types, Causes & Treatment

Family history: If your parents, siblings, children or other close relatives have breast cancer, you're at risk of developing the disease. Genetics: Up to 15% ...

Risks for breast cancer | Canadian Cancer Society

Some gene changes can increase the risk of developing certain types of cancer. Inherited gene mutations are passed on from a parent to a child. Only a small ...

Genetics and Hereditary Factors of Pancreatic Cancer

This means that for every 10 people with pancreatic cancer, one likely has an inherited mutation that increased their risk for developing the disease. Mutations ...

Cancer - Patients - Ambry Genetics

For some, cancer is a known threat because they have inherited an increased risk for cancer in their genes—it runs in the family.

Impact of Parental Cancer on Children - Anticancer Research

Multiple studies demonstrate that children in particular have a higher risk of emotional and behavioral problems (6, 7). The disruption of schedules and daily ...

Colon Cancer Risk Factors | Johns Hopkins Medicine

It could be because you share a genetic predisposition or are exposed to the same environment—or both. Are there multiple instances of this disease in your ...

Exploring knowledge of parents and caregivers on cancer symptoms ...

Evaluating parents' and caregivers' current knowledge of cancer is important because parent-related factors, such as lower educational level, ...

Family history, genes and cancer risk | Macmillan Cancer Support

Cancer cannot be passed from a parent to their child (inherited). But genes are passed from parent to child when a sperm and egg join and start forming a ...

Diving Deeper: Survey Finds Link Between Drug/Cannabis Use ...

We surveyed parents from more than 3,000 families affected by a childhood cancer diagnosis. We found that illicit drug use during pregnancy was ...