If you have several close relatives on the same side of the family who have had bowel cancer or womb cancer you may be at increased risk of womb cancer. Lynch syndrome is an inherited faulty gene linked with an increased risk of some cancers, including bowel cancer and womb cancer.
â Presidents. The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that met beginning in May 10, 1775, soon after shooting in the American Revolutionary War had begun. It succeeded the First Continental Congress, which met briefly during 1774. The second Congress managed the colonial war effort, and moved slowly towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.
When the Second Continental Congress came together on May 10, 1775 it was, in effect, a reconvening of the First Continental Congress.y the time the Second Continental Congress met, the American Revolutionary War had already started with the Battles of Lexington and Concord. The Congress was to take charge of the war effort.