The awareness of knowing your personal genetic information is very good, however I am against the idea of taking the DNA test due to its weaknesses.
The disadvantage is what leads to private issue’s, such as feeling uncomfortable on sharing information to friends and family members, sharing with others could lead to discrimination and inaccuracy of the genetic testing.
According to Singularity article on 23andme test review, the importance of your …show more content…
According to research lung cancer arises due to smoking, use of tobacco smoke, passive smoking, radon, occupational exposure and pollution. Lung cancer does not cause symptoms until they have spread too far to be cured, but some symptoms arise in early stages of lung cancer. Signs and symptoms of lung cancer are coughs, shortness of breath, feeling tired or weak, wheezing, chest pain, infections like bronchitis and pneumonia and coughing blood.
Research shows that smokers and smokers can inherit lung cancer, there is a high chance of inheriting lung cancer for people who do not smoke than for those who do, studies show that women have a greater risk of getting lung cancer than men.
Esophageal cancer is cancer that occurs in the esophagus, the cancer arises in the cells that line the inner part of the esophagus. Signs and symptoms of esophageal cancer is difficultly or soreness when swallowing, weight loss, pain in the chest, coughing, hoarseness, indigestion and heartburn. The risk of getting esophagus cancer is not high but it’s more on habits shared among the family such as good health and fitness and not genes. A family that undergoes unhealthy lifestyle like poor diet leads to obesity, smoking and alcohol can risk getting esophageal cancer and research states that men more likely to get esophageal cancer than