Sisters in drastic move to avoid breast cancer

doctors told them they had a 50-60 percent 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 scree-ned 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.”
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 percent chance that her sisters would have it too. – Daily Mail.