poll: diseases

[Savva]

Have your parents, brothers, sisters been (or are) sick with blood diseases? Other type of immune and cancer related diseases also count.
Also mind your grandparents if you can remember, please.

[Dirty Don]

Why do you want to know?

[Savva]

Just curious...

[Dirty Don]

Not interested without reason...

[Savva]

The reason is: I believe we with WG were not just so ''lucky" to get infected with some bacteria but also are prone to WG due to our genes and diseases history of our ancestors.
I was told once that one of my grandmothers had some issues with her blood-nothing serious, she lived a long and happy life.
I have not think of it much until my father got suddenly sick with leukemia recently.

[annekat]

The reason is: I believe we with WG were not just so ''lucky" to get infected with some bacteria but also are prone to WG due to our genes and diseases history of our ancestors.
I was told once that one of my grandmothers had some issues with her blood-nothing serious, she lived a long and happy life.
I have not think of it much until my father got suddenly sick with leukemia recently.

I don't really think of WG as a blood disease. It is an inflammation of the blood vessels but not of the blood itself. There has been discussion of possible genetic predispositions to WG or other AI diseases on here... perhaps some searching of the archives would be helpful. We've been told by medical info that WG is not hereditary, but we are not sure there might not be some genetic connections. I'm not sure that having a relative with leukemia would have any connection to having WG, though, since they are two different types of diseases. Don, or anyone else?

[Dirty Don]

Thanks Savva...my reaction was because we had an analyst for big insurance companies come on here not long ago who wanted our personal information to help 'them'...my problem, not yours! So sorry about your father...but leukemia is a cancer of the blood, but not an inherited one. Now there may be related propensities due to genetic traits, but no such link has been established directly to vasculitis. I, too, have thought similar things in that my father was in Nagasaki 2 weeks after the bomb dropped at 'ground zero' as a Marine medic...that exposure eventually killed him in the form of lesions and brain cancer at an early age. Therefore, I have considered the possibilities of genetic damages passed on to me...but it's theory...nothing more...perhaps simply the human desire to just understand that which I cannot at this time...

[chrisTIn@]

...I believe we with WG...also are prone to WG due to our genes and diseases history of our ancestors.

If you search for 'hereditary' on here, you will find a lot of results on this subject, because many have asked this question before.

You'll find for example this:
http://www.wegeners-granulomatosis.c...itary-not.html