Question

How are mutagenic agents related to the incidence of cancer in a population? Is cancer a disease transmitted to the offspring of an individual?

Answer 1

The exposure of a population to mutagenic agents (for example, the humans living in the region around the Chernobyl nuclear electricity plant and who have been exposed to the radiation from the nuclear meltdown in 1986) increases the cancer prevalence in that populace. This takes place because mutagenic marketers increase the fee of mutation and the possibility that mutant cells will proliferate in a pathological manner (most cancers).

Cancer itself isn't always a hereditarily transmissible ailment. Genetic predispositions for the development of most cancers, but, may be inherited.