Read my signature and there are a few unlucky folks in my family tree...All on the same side of the tree too...

Oh..all 4 of us non-smokers.

Quitting only means one thing...that you will never use tobacco again.

I am not familar with this gene and am happy to learn about it.
My Oncoligist repeatedly told me that my oral cancer was not hereity and now is rethinking his position.

My Dad had all his teeth pulled when was in his thirties because of what they called Pyoria at that time, now it is called gingevitis. I had several sessions with a Perio and was told as a teen to watch this pocket I had.

Several weeks before I found a sore in my mouth, I found my grandfather had a brother, Albert, no-one ever mentioned. In Genelocical research I found Newspaper articles that he died of Oral Cancer as a result of an accident. A wrench fell from above and struck him in the face. He worked for Henry Ford and was in a pit under an Automobile. My Cornish rellies all worked in mines and that could be another precourser.

My grand-dad lived to be almost 100 and his brother, Albert, died in 1922 so my Dad never mentioned him. Who knows, when my Dad's dentist may have known about the Uncle's death. So the Cancer resurfaced afgter 80 years.

In my Dad's family which is Irish/Cornish, the girls all have small mouths and huge teeth. Our teeth were all crowded and we all needed braces which our family Dentists said we should pull on with popcicle sticks. Of course that never worked. I also have been told I have a strange PH and produce more plaque than usual.

Mary Jeanne
Carsinoma, 8 years clear (hopefully)
Wearing an Obdurator

Lost my dad to NPC - but they said he picked it up from Vietnam. My surgeon didnt seem to think there was a link.
cheers
jon

I waited for a cancer diagnosis most of my life. My Mother died of cancer when I was 25. Both grandparents and one aunt on my Mother's side of the family died of cancer. My sister is a breast cancer survivor.

Bad genes...