My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My father passed from cancer in 2000; his brother died of cancer before that. My grandfather died of cancer.
Every single cancer is a genetic disease. Not necessarily inherited from your parents, but it's genetic changes which cause cancer. So as we sequence the genomes of tumours and compare those to the sequence of patients, we're getting down to the fundamental basis of each individual person's cancer.
Cancer affects so many people, and even if it hasn't affected someone in your family then you know someone who has had it.
My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a 'race' life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.
Skin cancer became personal to my family when my father was diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma.
Like millions of others, I have been plagued by the devastating effects of cancer hitting not one, but multiple members of my family.
When my parents died they both were 47, and they died of complications of different diseases; one being diabetes.
I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.
Both of my grandmothers were diagnosed with breast cancer - one is a survivor and one passed away.
While this has been a private part of my family's life, it is now clear a media story will soon emerge. My father tragically ended his life while battling terminal cancer in 1979.