[Hopespringpcsg] FW: FYI From youtube.com Topic: Prostate Cancer and Your Family Tree.

[Glen Tolhurst]

Hi all:

See link to  seminar.

Thx.

Glen


Subject: FYI From youtube.com Topic: Prostate Cancer and Your Family Tree.

 

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Prostate Cancer and Your Family Tree


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Thank you for attending yesterday's webinar, "Prostate Cancer and Your Family Tree: Implications for Cancer Risk and Genetic Testing." A full recording of yesterday's program is available  <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-xnXUDVsg0> at this link. You can find information and recordings for all previous webinars  <https://zerocancer.org/learn/resources/webinars-videos/> on ZERO's website.

 

Below are the additional resources listed in the presentation that are available to help people understand and be proactive about their risk of prostate cancer and hereditary cancer:

 

 <http://www.facingourrisk.org/index.php> Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered (FORCE)

 

 <https://www.cancer.org/> American Cancer Society (ACS)

 

 <http://www.nsgc.org/> National Society of Genetic Counselors (NSGC)

 

 

 <https://zerocancer.org/learn/about-prostate-cancer/risks/> ZERO - The End of Prostate Cancer


 


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Meeting Description:

	

Human traits can be passed down from one generation to the next, such as eye color or blood type. Unfortunately, so can cancer. Increasing evidence points to inherited mutated genes being responsible for many types of cancer in a certain percentage of people.

 

A typical man’s lifetime risk of prostate cancer is one in eight, but it doubles if a close male relative is affected. The risk can be much higher if three close family members are affected by either prostate or breast cancers.

 

Studies are identifying a number of heritable genetic changes that contribute to prostate cancer risk and mortality. In fact, research suggests that mutations in the BRCA2 gene increases the likelihood not only of breast and ovarian cancers but also aggressive prostate cancer.

 

If you’ve had prostate cancer, there could be cancer risks for males and females in your family. For example, research has found that a daughter of a man with prostate cancer is 14 percent more likely to get breast cancer. If there is an inherited genetic mutation, cancer risks could include prostate cancer, breast cancer, and additional cancers such as ovarian cancer, melanoma, or male breast cancer. Therefore, the family can be impacted by various cancers.  

 

But there’s hope. Awareness and cancer risk assessment can stop prostate cancer in its tracks. Join us to learn about prostate cancer’s impact on your family tree.  

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