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Cousins undergo stomach removal after hereditary cancer discovery
Mike Slabaugh and 10 cousins learn they carry the grandmother’s defective gene for hereditary diffuse gastric cancer. All elect preventive gastrectomies to reduce risk, making them the largest family to choose this surgery. Doctors note DNA screening may expand in the future but is not yet routine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Mike Slabaugh
Golda Bradfield
Slabaugh
Stanford University Medical Center
Palo Alto
Francis Collins
National Human Genome Research Institute
Ned Calonge
U.S
Las Vegas
Bill Bradfield
Farmington, N.M
City of Sin
David Huntsman
University of British Columbia
American Cancer Society
Bradfield