Unlocking the Cancer Code: Unraveling Hereditary Mutations

A Cancer Pedigree Part II Worldwide, hereditary cancer accounts for 10 percent of global cancer cases. It is, therefore, crucial to understand hereditary and non-hereditary cancer mutations. Cancer is a recurring disease on my mother’s side since it is in every generation. Cancer genes that pass from one generation to the other are called germline mutations. In this context, cancer on my mother’s side is caused by the inherited faulty cancer genes which are passed from the parents to the child (Hogan Smith, 2017). Studies show that if a parent has a cancer fault gene, the child has a 0.5 p