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Family history & cancer
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September 2018
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Alternative Title:Family history and cancer
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Description:There are five main types of cancer that affect a woman’s reproductive organs: cervical, ovarian, uterine, vaginal, and vulvar. As a group, they are referred to as gynecologic (GY-neh-kuh-LAH-jik) cancer.
This fact sheet about family history and cancer is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Inside Knowledge: Get the Facts About Gynecologic Cancer campaign. Knowing more about family or personal history of cancer may help women to know if they have an increased risk of developing gynecologic and other cancers.
www.cdc.gov/cancer/knowledge 800-CDC-INFO
CDC Publication #300548, September 2018
family-history-factsheet-508.pdf
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Pages in Document:2 unnumbered pages
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