Hi everyone! Hope you are having a great day. I was wondering what the odds of a family memeber of a OC survivor developing the same cancer is? Since my sister has been diagnosed I was wondering if we as family should be checked more frequently. My sister has unfortunatly been the first one in the family diagnosed with cancer but it is due to her previous smoking habit( she quit day of surgery). I do have a few friends diagnosed with breast cancer and now their families are checked earlier and more frequent for breast cancer. Just wondering if we should do the same. We are also changing to dr's and dentist's that actually check for OC during a check up. I can not believe how many do not do a full check up.
CG to Sister (42). Smoker quit @ diagnosis Dx 4/20/10 SCC T2N0M0, Rside of tongue Hemigloss R neck dis, all nodes removed 6/2/10, Trach and NG in, home 6/8/10,8/18/2010 start erbitux x6, 30 IMRT end 10/11/10 with only 3x erbitux due to reaction and one week off of rads 1/10/2011 Clear PET!!!
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