Hereditary factors and specific genetic conditions can link melanoma to other cancers like pancreatic cancer, warranting genetic testing when family history suggests a predisposition.

“there are hereditary cases so one needs to be pretty mindful when taking a family history and by the way there are really weird genetic um conditions that link melanoma to other cancers such as pancreatic cancer by the way so whenever I'm taking somebody's family history and I hear about somebody that had melanoma and someone that had pancreatic cancer I'm there's a couple genetics genetic tests we'll look at to to see if that's a person that's particularly sensitive just and a from a genetic predisposition”