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Down Syndrome: Down syndrome is a chromosomal condition that affects 1/1000 live born babies. It can be caused by three copies of chromosomes 21 instead of the normal 2. symptoms: Learning difficulties, mental retardation, a characteristic facial appearance, and poor muscle tone in infancy. Inherited: Down syndrome is not inherited. It is a result due to an error on the cell division called nondisjunction. It results in reproductive cells with an abnormal number of chromosomes.

Skin cancer: Skin cancer is the most como cancer in the U.S. and is the most commonly caused by UV radiation Symptoms: - the shape of a melanoma may be asymmetrical, their boarders may be ragged or irregular, the color uneven and the size of it may change. - Changes on the skin, a sore that doesn't heal = basal and squamous cell cancers For these cancers, watch the parts of the body that hit the sun the most (face, neck, hands, arms) Inherited: You can be born with a genetic disposition towards getting cancer. 10% of all patients with melanoma have family members who also have or have had this disease.

Breast cancer: Breast cancer is a common disease in which 200,00 women in the U.S. are diagnosed with it ever year. !/9 American women will develop breast cancer in her lifetime. Symptoms: Checking for lumps or thickening mear the breast and underarms - A change in size or shapr of breast - A discharge from our nipple - any abnormal activity - change in color Inherited: It is not hereditary, but if there is a strong family history of breast cancer, a woman of that family should get teated.