One of our Partner Members in Tampa, Florida, Facing our Risk of Cancer Empowered, also known as “FORCE”, focuses on hereditary breast and ovarian cancer and therefore has extensive information on the genetic issues, as they pertain to Ovarian Cancer. Ovarian Cancer may be hereditary. Ovarian cancer can be caused by changes in Genes called “hereditary mutations.” This gene changes can be passed down from the mother or the father to daughters or sons and cause cancer to run in the family. Families with ovarian, fallopian tube, breast, or pancreatic cancer may have a hereditary mutation in the genes called BRCA1 or BRCA2.

For More Information regarding and hereditary factors see www.facingourrisk.org