Health
Shocking legacy: Cancer claims three in one family – News Mail
A rogue cancer-causing gene that has claimed her father, her older sister, a baby sister she never had the chance to meet — and nearly took her.
Francesca Hudson has a rogue cancer-causing gene that has claimed her father, her older sister, a baby sister she never had the chance to meet – and nearly took her two years ago.
But she also has hope for the future.
When the 19-year-old starts her own family, she will use IVF to make sure that gene, known as Familial Adenomatous Polyposis or FAP, never gets any further down her family line.
The family’s nightmare began in 1998. Ms Hudson never knew her sister who was born in 1997.
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