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What are the chances of a 16 year old having a brain tumor?
What are the chances of a 16 year old male having a brain tumor, considering His grandfather suffered from one?
Did you grandfather had any traumas? Did he smoke? What kind of tumor he had? What had he been working all life?
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For the general population the brain tumors are not hereditary. Certain gilomas are inherited if there are certain syndromes running in the family such as Turcot’s syndrome, and Li-Fraumeni syndrome. If these syndromes do not run in the family, then brain tumors cannot be inherited. Hope this helps. Take care!
That's a "how many angels are on the head of a pin" issue.
The question you seem to be asking is whether or not there is a hereditary component to brain tumors, and the answer is, generally no.
I say "generally" because recent literature suggests that some families may have genetically impaired immune systems. In the lab we breed mice, for example, to be tumor-prone, for experimental purposes.
In humans this is very unlikely.
The question you seem to be asking is whether or not there is a hereditary component to brain tumors, and the answer is, generally no.
I say "generally" because recent literature suggests that some families may have genetically impaired immune systems. In the lab we breed mice, for example, to be tumor-prone, for experimental purposes.
In humans this is very unlikely.
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