my mother has breast cancer can i also get it?
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1 :
Anyone can get cancer, no one is immune. You are at a higher risk for breast cancer because your mother has it.
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Hereditary breast cancer is rare; only 5 - 10% of all cases are hereditary. Breast cancer diagnosed after the age of 50 is even less likely to be hereditary Where it is hereditary, it's due to a rare inherited faulty gene. If your mother is the only one in your family to have had breast cancer, it is extremely unlikely to be hereditary. A sign that breast (or any) cancer MAY be hereditary is when several members of the same side of a family have had it, especially if some were diagnosed at a younger than usual age. If her breast cancer was due to one of the two rare faulty genes known to be responsible for hereditary breast cancer, BRCA1 or BRCA2, then you would have a 50% chance of having inherited the gene. Inheriting one of the faulty genes doesn't mean someone will definitely get cancer. As the daughter (I'm assuming you're female) of someone who's had breast cancer, you are likely to be treated as at increased risk simply as a precaution by starting routine mammograms earlier. You don't say how old you are. Breast cancer, whether hereditary or not is almost unheard of in under 25s and very rare (fewer than 0.1% of all those diagnosed) in under 30s
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