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One in 10 cancer cases is hereditary and occurs more frequently in women than in men, said Rosa María Álvarez Gómez, coordinator of the National Cancer Institute's Hereditary Cancer Clinic (INCAN).
A statement released today by the agency, the specialist said that cancer that has a hereditary origin mainly affects organs such as the bad, ovaries, endometrium, colon and the digestive tract.
However, he stressed, not all neoplasms are hereditary, even when one or more parents have been found to have the disease.
In the case of hereditary cancer, it presents specific causes and characteristics, such as mammary carcinomas in humans, presence in a young population, antecedents in a branch of the maternal or paternal family, among others, unlike external factors cancer.
The expert reported that the most common type is hereditary bad and ovarian cancer syndrome, but when a cancer is detected in the bad, transbadl ultrasounds are also performed to detect an invasion of malignant cells in the ovaries, because the two conditions are related.
The specialist noted that this condition is treated differently when it is hereditary because the patient is permanently monitored and may opt for surgical prevention or risk reduction measures.
In some cases, he explained, bad tissue can be removed from both bads, also known as mastectomy, or personalized medications can be offered.
In cases of ovarian neoplasia, one is proceeded to the removal of these, the fallopian tubes or the fallopian tubes, which prevents the growth of a tumor.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), bad cancer is the leading cause of death from malignant tumors in women, and the most diagnosed in Latin America, with about 152,000 cases a year, of which 15% is already detected in advanced stages.
The expert concluded by recalling that 90% of cancer cases are a consequence of lifestyles, type of diet, physical inactivity, overweight and exposure to tobacco, among others.
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