Are you at a higher risk of having cancer?A large study involving 23,000 participants showed that any family history of cancer can significantly increase the risk of cancer development in other immediate family members, even when the types of cancers were of different originThe report was published last week in the journal Annals of Oncology, and led by chief researcher, Dr Eva Negri, who heads the Laboratory of Epidemiologic Methods at the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research, in Milan, Italy,While the study confirmed a long understood family Association with certain types of cancers such as breast, esophageal and colorectal malignancies; the study also found an increase in the occurrence of seemingly unrelated cancers, especially when a relative developed the disease at a relatively early ageSpeaking of the findings, Dr Read more