Weeks 1 & 2. During the first few weeks of pregnancy, your progesterone levels will be roughly 1-1.5ng/ml. Keep in mind that the gestational age of your baby is calculated from the start of your last menstrual period â even though you werenât pregnant at this time.
No. Cancer is not really hereditary in the true sense of the word. Hereditary means that you definitely get a trait such as eye colour or an illness from the genes you inherit from your parents. The cause of cancer is not as simple as that. Cancers are not caused by just one gene. Cancer is usually an illness of older people and most cancers occur when several genetic changes occur in a cell. This is called sporadic cancer. But some people inherit faulty (mutated) genes which make their chance of developing a particular cancer higher than normal.
Cancers are results of genetic defects (somatic and inherited) and cancers also lead to more genetic defect due to genomic instability. Also, some cancers can arise as a result of chronic inflammation while some cancers can lead to inflammation. References (There are better references out there.