I wonder whether cancer runs in families. We’ve never had it in ours. Knock on wood.
Probiotics are easy. I drink Kombucha every night with dinner and have yogurt with fruit for dessert. Yummy and cheap.
as per nebula genetics:
STUDY DESCRIPTION
Melanoma is the most serious type of skin cancer. This study compared ~36,000 melanoma patients with ~375,000 healthy individuals of European descent and identified 68 genetic variants in 54 different genomic regions. The study also found associations between melanoma risk and lighter skin color as well as a larger number of moles on the body. One of the regions associated with both melanoma and moles is near the PARP1 gene, a DNA repair gene that helps control the melanoma causing gene MITF. Another variant was associated with the HLA region, which suggests a role for immunity in the development of skin cancer. Other genes were involved in telomere maintenance. The genomic regions discovered in this study collectively explain ~8.5% of melanoma risk heritability.