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By answering these 8 questions, you can go a long way toward determining whether you have inherited a risk for cancer.

::1:: Have two or more close relatives on your mother´s side been diagnosed with cancer?
Yes No I don´t know
 
::2:: Have two or more close relatives on your father´s side been diagnosed with cancer?
Yes No I don´t know
 
::3:: Have any close relatives, including yourself, been diagnosed with cancer before the age of 50?
(Please do not include cancer of the cervix, non-melanoma skin cancer, or lung cancer.)
Yes No I don´t know
 
::4:: Have you, or a close relative, been diagnosed with two or more distinct cancers, not the spread of cancer from the first cancer site?
(Bone, liver, and lung are often sites where cancer spreads, therefore please do not count these cancers as distinct.)
Yes No I don´t know
 
::5:: Has any close relative, including yourself, been diagnosed with any of the following:
  • Malignant melanoma
    (do not include other types of skin cancer)
  • Thyroid cancer
  • Lung cancer (in a non-smoker)
  • Prostate cancer (before the age of 60)
  • Male breast cancer
Yes No I don´t know
 
::6:: Has any blood relative who is of Eastern European Ashkenazi Jewish descent, including yourself, been diagnosed with breast, ovarian, or colon cancer?
Yes No I don´t know
 
::7:: Have you, or a blood relative, undergone genetic testing and learned of the presence of a gene mutation that causes an increased cancer risk?
Yes No I don´t know
 
::8:: Have you ever been told by a health care professional that you are at an increased risk for cancer?
Yes No I don´t know