Is Leukemia hereditary disease?

Thank you for letting me know that I may not get it from my father who died just a year ago and he had this, I have some of what I thought could have been symptoms so i thank you for letting me know it couldn't be from him sorry to hear you lost a loved one to this too.

high sorry for the past of your to close relatives but im only 14 and i read alot about disease and alot of my friends have past cus of leukemia and i know how it feels but thank u for putting some un aware information

my mother was diagnosed when i was inside her with lukiema, six months after i was born she died, i am now nearly eighteen, ive asked whether the disease is hereditary and people in my family were told it wasnt, i want to know if theres a chance i could get it?

c**p. It's all in our DNA.

I myself think it is hereditary, my daughter died of Leukemia in 1986, and my grandson was diagnosed with it in 2005, he has been in remission for a good 3yrs now. So yes I DO THINK Leukemia is hereditary.  I mean you really need to test to see if it is, you have so many people in the same family getting this deadly disease, what better proof do you need!!!

I believe that Leukemia is a hereditary disease as I lost my mom to (AML) in feb this year and her mother died of the same (AML) 10 yrs ago. now i am worried about my sister my brothers and myself not to mention my kids. it could be a mind over matter thing with me but sometimes i feel like i have the symptoms of (AML). My mom was a very active woman she went down to the last and she just got a cold i took her to the hospital they said it was the flu and send her home with anti-biotics  she got worse a day later so i took her back a second time they did an x-tray and said it was a lung infection and sent her back home with different medication the next day she started coughing up blood so i took her back a third time they decided to keep her for blood test 2 days later said it was (AML). This was new years day 2012 she died feb 10th not even a good 2 months. This was what happened with her mother as well she lasted less than a month with the same type so i think it is hereditary. I guess scientist aren't as smart as they claim to be cause they cant figure out that it is. I am sorry to all of you that have (AML) or (ALL) or (CML) or any other type of leukemia or family members that have it I don't wish this on my worst enemy I saw what my mother went through and i know what i went through seeing her in pain for that month in the hospital. It's not fair but i guess that is life. She is in a better place now without any pain. All i can tell you is that if a family member has (AML) or (ALL) don't be selfish and want to hold on to them we think we do but the pain that they are suffering we can not feel it so please just let go it is for them.

My name is Kameron and i am 15 years old . My mother passed away when i was thirteen... Now i live with my father that i just met last year he hasnt been there threw almost 14 years of my life. W seriously dont EVER get along and now he is talking bout taking me to the hospital so i can get checked all the time ! I dissagree im not going to be put threw all kinds of pain if i dont even have anything? Is leukemia hereditary ?!

My dad has AML and was diagnosed end of Sep 2012. At the moment he is in hospital due to a fall in the new year, he has now been put on Hydroxyclamabine or something that sounds like that. He has been on it for about 2 weeks now. He is 85 but was a really fit man until about July last year, it came on all of a sudden. He has had wonderful care in our specialist cancer hospital but is going in a nursing home fior a week until the carers can be set up to go into his home 4 times a day. Before his fall we were taking him to the hospital every week for blood count checks and he had a transfusion every four weeks, they were keeping his count above 10. He was doing ok until the fall in the new year and he has got a lot worse since then. This disease comes on so quick and it is so upsetting watching your loved ones getting worse. I feel for all of you that has had to go through this. My dad is in no pain and at the moment I want him to be with us as long as that continues. I have never thought about it been hereditory, too much to think about at the moment worrying about my dad and my mum.

Hi Praise the Lord...... my name is Rachel,,,,i read ur story. howz ur sisters grandaughter now??

Leukemia isn't hereditary. It's unknwon what causes it but there are symptoms Fever and night sweats. Headaches. Bruising or bleeding easily. Bone or joint pain. A swollen or painful belly from an enlarged spleen. Swollen lymph nodes in the armpit, neck, or groin. Getting a lot of infections. Feeling very tired or weak. Losing weight and not feeling hungry. I'm doing a 4 page essay on leukemia and everywhere I check they say over and over again how it's not hereditary, but I haven't found anything on a cure yet either. Sorry and no problem. <3

Hello. Im 15 years old and I can somewhat relate. My grandfather at 90 was diagnosed with Leukemia (Not sure what time.)(this was last year 1 week after easter) and after a good 2 months of fighting he passed away in hospice care. Just a few weeks ago my grandfathers brother (Uncle Bob) was diagnosed with Leukemia (apparently the same type) and already had Parkinsons disease. We don't know how much time he has but he is 88 and he can only fight so much. Uncle Bob and my grandfather's other brother Uncle Henry (94) is doing fine as far as we know but I think their is a huge chance that this is hereditary because it is a blood disease and the genes that make up the DNA in the blood are the building blocks of embryonic steps to becoming a fetus. I think some types leukemia are genetic and some are not genetic and are caused because of a lack of something or a gene mutation. I don't know and im sure the rest of the science world doesn't either or we would have a cure but I like to think that this is genetic.

I just lost my mother last year two days after Christmas from leukemia. She was diagnosed in October last year, two months later she passed away. I'm only 22, and an only child. I wasn't ready to lose my mom but now I have no choice but to move on. It's weird to me that my mom had leukemia because there is no trace of it in my family. The only type of cancer I have in my family is breast cancer which in fact my grandma's sister only had and that was a one time thing. I'm not fully convinced if it's hereditary but that doesn't mean it won't change my mind. But I'm sorry for everyone's losses especially those, who are like me, that lost a mother or father. It's tough especially because I lost two most important people in my life, at the same time.. My mother was in the ICU for the last week of her life, she was on life support and her immediate cause of death was kidney failure. But she fought for a week with her kidney failure. But the day after Christmas, the 26th, my grandma had passed away from a heart attack (my mother's mother) because of course she couldn't handle the fact that her daughter was dying.. Then the next day, my mom passed.. It's the most painful thing I have ever experienced and it hurts so much just typing this, I can feel the pain as if it happened yesterday. It hurt so much to set a funeral for two important people in my life and I don't know how I'll be able to accept this but I know I have to one day. With that being said, I'm still feeling blessed because I have my father. Although I miss my mom and my grandma so much, I know that they'd want me to continue my life. 

Leukemia is not the cancer of white blood cells. Leukemia is the cancer of the blood-making cells. This malignancy in the blood makers causes them to malfunction and make too many white blood cells. The goal of chemotherapy with leukemia is to kill those malignant cells that are making white blood cells. Our organs take after our parents DNA, or else they have no "code" to form! Leukemia is heridetary because bone marrow DNA from your parents dwell in your bone marrow. You just need to he exposed to these "troggers" to activate leukemia. Example: a kid is skinny all his life and just gains unconseptable weight and becomes overweight. This may mock your parents weight when they had leukemia. Your DNA will "remember" this weight and develop into leukemia. Also, leukemia can skip generations.

My husband passed away Jan 2013.  He was diagnosed with AML March 2011.  His father had leukemia over 30 years ago and survived, still living today.  My husband had the leukemia which he also had what the doctor called FLT3 gene, which meant he would not get better with just chemo.  So my husband had a stem cell transplant, he was cancer free but died from side effects.  In the end he was unable to eat-had a feeding tube; had blood clots behind his knees-so he was on blood thinners.  He died from internal bleeding, thankfully, peacefully in his sleep.  I wonder who the next victim in his family will be diagnosed.  I believe it will continue.  The real sadness will be when his Jevoha's witness siblings, who refused to be checked to be my husband's donor, will be suddenly be okay with getting blood work done. My husband of three years was only 52 years old.

I have just lost my beloved , healthy father to this disease 8 weeks ago. He had a rare form CMML  and died in a hospice at 68 yrs old. We have been told over and over that his case was NOT hereditary. My father was exposed in the 80's to benzine whilst working at a chemical engineering plant in Libya he also lived near an airport for over 20 years . The reason I state this is that my fathers parents aged 100 & 96 and many of his aunts and uncles still alive all 85 plus. They have remained in rural Scotland in stress free environments eating home grown veg and leading non stressful lives. My father had leaukeamia in a chronic form probably for many years but started to feel unwell after a holiday and within 12 months died we were told he was terminal on 3rd august 2013 with 3 months to live he died 3 weeks later in the cruelest and vilest way. Such a horrid disease and makes me angry that he was so healthy and into what he ate and fitness yet still got this. Felt compelled to share I worry I may get it but really doubt I think it's environmental on the whole.