The couple lost a son because of a rare brain tumor. And now in the family new baby was born, who is called "designer" - in the course of in vitro fertilization has been genetically protected from the possibility of the same ill with cancer.
British Nicky and Neil Halford were completely devastated and crushed with grief when their five year old son Ben (first photo) lost the fight with a rare kind of brain tumor. The illness lasted three years, that is, more than half of the child's life miserable. His mother, doctors discovered cancer gene rare Li-Fraumeni. At 21, she herself was a victim of breast cancer, but managed to recover.
Alas, Neil and Nicky knew nothing about the existence of this fatal gene until their son is not diagnosed. Before his death, the boy asked the parents to give him a brother or sister. And the couple faced a difficult choice: whether or not to execute the will of the dying son, or to go on a huge risk. After all, they again could produce a child with a genetic predisposition to cancer.
Then the doctors told them the possibility to go through a special eco-therapy, in which the embryo is tested for the presence of a damaged gene before placed back into the uterus. Thus the future of the baby can get rid of hereditary cancer. However, no Divine Providence in artificial insemination I have not observed - doctors are studying all the embryos to find a suitable. This time has been assigned two - one with a cancer gene, and the other without.
Last embryo was transplanted Nicky Halford two and a half years after the death of Ben. Nine months later, the light reappeared boy whom the couple named Tom. "We had only one embryo is suitable, which means another chance - says Nicky. - We have tried hard not to give in. When I found out she was pregnant, then burst into tears. Her husband, too, began to cry."
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