Monday, June 19, 2006

11 cousins give up stomachs after tests confirm rare genetic defect

Mike Slabaugh doesn't have a stomach. Neither do his 10 cousins. Growing up, they watched helplessly as a rare hereditary stomach cancer killed their grandmother and some of their parents, aunts and uncles. The choice was: risk the odds that they might not develop cancer, with a 70 percent chance they would; or have their stomachs removed.

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