The relationship between genes and cancer

Gene is an important factor leading to cancer.

Icelandic company deCODE genetics, and the National University Hospital researchers in the past 50 years, the country 32,000 cancer patients and their relatives had been tracking survey of the 27 kinds of hereditary cancer were studied. They found that the lips cancer and leukemia gene is subject to the greatest impact both cancer, the patient's siblings and two children suffering from cancer risk is normal 5 times and 4 times, and meningeal cancer, thyroid cancer, testicular cancer, and the relatives of patients with laryngeal cancer, the risk of suffering from cancer is similar to the three times normal; breast cancer, lung cancer, pancreatic cancer, ovarian cancer, esophageal cancer and the relatives of patients with bone cancer, the risk of suffering from similar diseases than normal who doubled. From the statistical data, the study involved 16 patients with cancer and even distant relatives will have an impact.