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Just to add a clarification for the rest of HN, since this is a common source of confusion... Every cancer has gene mutations. Typically these mutations are onl
by ufo 5y ago
Just to add a clarification for the rest of HN, since this is a common source of confusion... Every cancer has gene mutations. Typically these mutations are only present in the cancer cells and are not there from birth. They don't indicate a hereditary predisposition to getting cancer.
Really sorry to hear what your family is going through. This kind of stuff is never easy to deal with.
- kozikow 5y agoFor some reason, non-smoking lung cancer means 2-3x higher chance of finding a mutation that could be used for targeted therapy - e.g. EGFR, ALK, ROS1 and others. It doesn't mean that this mutation was present at birth, but at some point some cells mutated and became cancer cells.