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Question: I know that brain tumors have a tendency to run in families. Surprisingly, both my mother and father passed away from brain tumors, my mother about 25 years ago and my father 18 years ago. Six years ago my father's younger brother also passed away after being diagnosed with Anaplastic Astrocytoma. I checked at that time and there were no prior known incidents of anybody else having tumors in the family. I do not have the details on the type of tumors my parents had. All three of them used to live next to a pharmacetical drug company and my father and his brother worked there for a few years. I was born there and we moved to a new place within 2 years. All this haunts me and makes me wonder what to expect. Is there anything I can do to stay on top of this? I know we are still trying to find a cure, forget prevent the occurence of one.
Answer:08/02/2005
You may want to consider a consultation at a major cancer treatment center that has a genetics counselor. That way, a complete family history can be taken to see if this may fit with a genetic susceptibility syndrome.

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