Posts by hollowbison87

Could you change my username to hollowbison87?

We can take care of that. Just reach out to Nice.

You've actually hit your 75-message cap, so I can't send you a PM right now. If you really want to hear back from me, you might need to go ahead and clear out some of those old posts 😉.

I’m on the same page as what was said above; I haven’t personally come across the term benign astrocytoma before either.
The only thing we can really conclude from this is that the diagnosis itself isn't exactly good news. It looks like the person involved is facing an incredibly difficult uphill battle.

Grace Campbell88 said:Look, I’m just curious about this—and honestly, if anyone wants to tell me to go join a philosophy forum, fine, whatever, who cares☕:

So, let's take a hypothetical scenario... say someone passes away from lung cancer caused strictly by smoking or maybe working in a coal mine, doesn't really matter. The point is, we have a clear cause for the illness.
Let's assume that because there was such a specific trigger, if that person had never smoked—not even secondhand smoke—and had never stepped foot near a mine, they wouldn't have developed lung cancer at all.

Does that mean their grandson, for example—someone who has never touched a cigarette and has never been near any industrial sites—now carries a genetic predisposition within those percentage ranges mentioned by JPK or ruggedscout91, or perhaps even double the risk of developing lung cancer?

Don't get too caught up in the deep philosophy of it; you don't inherit the disease itself directly, at least not in a case like this. Instead, it's a predisposition toward it developing. You see, the human genome is significantly influenced by our environment and how we live our lives. What’s actually more critical when looking at the same type of malignancy appearing in a family line is the inheritance of lifestyle habits, simply because parents are the ones we learn from, and later in life, we unconsciously mimic them.
I recall reading about a study that supports this... it showed that the disease was just as prevalent in adopted children, which suggests there wasn't a direct genetic predisposition involved.