Breast Cancer Health

Is our Cancer coming from our home?

One parent has lung cancer (never smoked), another has colon cancer, two of the kids have had tumors in their breast & another has had several miscarrages, and another has an unusually strong cough. Could these symptoms come from our house? None of the neighbors are sick. Could something be wrong with the water? is it just bad to drink or could it also be bad for bathing, laundry? Is it not the water?

You need to give more specific information. It is impossible to tell by your brief description what is going on. How old were the members of this family when they found out about their cancer? People can get lung cancer without ever smoking. Colon cancer and some forms of breast cancer can be hereditary. Since no one else in the neighborhood seems to be affected, it may be that the family is dealing with an hereditary cancer (s).

You might want to follow up with genetic risk assessment and counseling just to be sure:

http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/prevention-genetics-causes/genetics

As for environmental factors, you can check your states cancer registry to see if there are other indications of cancer clustering in the area.

National Program of Cancer Registries

http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/npcr/

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