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Saturday, September 27, 2008

Sisters Have Stomachs Removed to Beat Cancer

Two ses had their stomaches removed on the same twenty-four hours last twelvemonth in attempt to forestall a deathly malignant neoplastic disease that took the lives of respective of their relatives, it is reported by the Daily Mail.

Lisa Bendle, 24, and Babe Ruth Bendle, 22, establish out that they carried a gene, E-Cadherin (CAD1) gene, which sets them at greater hazard for tummy cancer. Now they are considering other preventive surgeries.

The factor is also thought to be responsible for some types of breast and intestine cancer, according to the report. The ses will make up one's mind over the adjacent respective calendar months whether to have got mastectomies and parts of their bowels removed to forestall the possibility of getting other cancers, according to the report.

"Unfortunately, we now have got got got to face the fact that we have a higher than norm hazard of catching breast cancer, and if we desire to beat out those odds, we have to begin the showing process," Lisa Bendle, a school teacher, told the Daily Mail. "We also have got to see showing for intestine cancer."

The sisters' paternal grandma died from tummy malignant neoplastic disease when she was just 27. Their father died of the disease three old age ago and an auntie passed away when she was 43, just a hebdomad before their first cousin died at age 18.

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