Three sisters once got rid of the breast and uterus

Three sisters decided to take drastic action to once and for all get rid of the family curse - the possibility of breast cancer or ovarian cancer. Together, they removed his chest and uterus.

Luan Moreton, Kim Jones and Jemma Dennis UK lost his mother, who died of breast cancer   32 years. Tests have shown that all three sisters had inherited from her "spoiled" gene, because of which their own risk of becoming a victim of cancer was frightening 60%. The sisters now had every six months to come to the hospital for a thorough check for tumor development.

But such a prospect to live under the constant fear of fatal illness to the end none of the young women did not like. And they decided to take drastic measures to protect. Three sisters went through a double mastectomy, and two older even after removal of the uterus. The youngest of them 30-year-old Gemma is also willing to do the operation, but not before she will give her husband children.

All three sisters turned to the other women, who also may have a bad copy of the gene BRCA1, which increases the risk Ovarian Cancer   to 50-60%, and breast cancer   nightmare level to 85%. They call upon all whose relatives have suffered from cancer, to be tested for the presence of this gene. If he is discovered, women should think about preventive surgery.

Have a defective BRCA1 gene may show an ordinary blood test. The older sister is recognized that not even deliberated about whether to do surgery or not. After their mother died, when he himself was 12 and seven years respectively. And sisters do not want to leave their children in the same age without their mothers.

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