You don't inherit cancer; you actually get it.
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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.
Once cancer happens it changes the way you live for the rest of your life.
Cancer is something that touches everyone's lives.
At my age, I don't think anyone is untouched by cancer.
Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient.
The doctor said that every man will have cancer if he lives to be old enough. I don't know why I got it - I ain't old.
In a way, cancer is so simple and so natural. The older you get, this is just one of the things that happens as the clock ticks.
Cancer initiates due to a wide variety of causes, some of which are outside of our control or already occurred during our childhood.
Cancer affects so many people, and even if it hasn't affected someone in your family then you know someone who has had it.
The thing with cancer is that you want to get it as early as you can.
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