Three brave sisters have revealed how they had their breasts and wombs removed to avoid a hereditary cancer which killed their mother when she was just 32.
Luan Moreton, 38, Kim Jones, 33, and Jemma Dennis, 30, had mastectomies after tests revealed they had the same aggressive gene as their mother Rita.
Now the two eldest sisters have also undergone hysterectomies after doctors told them they had a 50-60 per cent chance of developing ovarian cancer.
Youngest sibling Jemma will also have the operation after she has tried for children with her husband.
Yesterday the trio urged other women to be screened for the disease and consider preventative surgery.
Luan, who has one son, said: ‘We were all very close growing up after what happened to mum, but these operations have made us even closer.
‘I feel that we are lucky because we realised we all had the gene and took steps to prevent it from developing.
‘People need to know that there are things you can do to minimise the risk. Our mum had the gene but she was never tested for it.
‘It was too late for her – but we were able to do something about it.’
Luan was 12, Kim seven and Jemma just four when their mother died from breast cancer at the age of 32 in 1986.
Years later the nightmare returned when Luan, from Nuneaton, Warwickshire, then 31, discovered a lump in her breast while taking a shower.
Tests showed she had breast cancer and in July 2005 she had a lumpectomy followed by a six-month course of chemotherapy and four weeks of radiotherapy.
The treatment was successful, but further examinations at Birmingham Women’s Hospital revealed that Luan was carrying the BRCA1 gene – the main trigger for the disease.
It meant there was a 50 per cent chance that her sisters would have it too.
In January 2007 Jemma, from Tamworth, Staffordshire, gave blood to be tested – and the results came back positive.
It meant she had an 85 per cent chance of getting breast cancer.
Middle sister Kim, from Leicester, was also tested a couple of months later and she too tested positive.
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Yeah prevention is beta than cure!
mwe lesa
prayer and deliverance can solve and reverse their problem no matter what condition they are in.
Sum preventive measures,1 day some1 will chop off their heads 2 prevent brain cancer.
Not everyone will die the same death as others. They lucked God’s deliverance to make such operations. God never made them the same, hence, to remove what God has given you is defying God’s creation.
Wonders,you are a commedian!
Its sad really. No breasts, no wombs!
They would have gone 4 prayers to cut the chain of evil which dwels in them. Learn to pray and rebuke the spirit of sickness because it is not our potion.
where is this world headin to? removin yo body parts fearin death! juses come soon before we all go astray.
Why goin thru all this pain wen one way or another they’ll die,afterall even headache can kill u.
Hey sorry to say this but Zambians are very ignorant,cancer is very dangerous it has to be controlled at early stage,i’ve been their i went to be treated in America
so no sex. they should as well just die. they are a burden to mother earth.
@ conman, are u stupid or what? who told u that one cannot have sex minus breasts or a womb? of all things shuwa? & where do u suppose the vaginas have disappeared to?
Eish their husbands must now learn how to shug em without touch touch and fyomp fyomp pa mabele.
ONLY GOG KNOWS.
Guys mind sum of ur coments,this is nt fun.God help this ladies.
iwe chit tumfweko tauleyamona amabele. ulechita kwati tawatonyapo amabele yantutu. i can see breasts there
mutubepe sure
Ifi nomba fidoli chabe. Am sure limbi notuma machine fyalitusokola ka? Yaba!ninshi naupwalala ulemonafye ka bra noishiba ati mulifye umwela!!!
Ok buti zed pipo r ignorant,why dnt pipo wit aids go 4 deliverance bt take arvs to prolong their lives?thy oso had to remuv the parts to save thm
iwe those are plastic breasts and wombs
So technically these 3 are not women anymore… they are just bodies with dry v-jayjays
@Wanu Ngwee
LOL!!!!