When cancer runs in the family

Familial cancers with clear patterns of mendelian inheritance are very rare. [iStockphoto]

"We didn't understand until my father died of stomach cancer and that it was all genetic and frequent screening an only option to save my family," Eunice Mulehane narrates with tears in her eyes.

That was in 2017 and Eunice had just finished treatment for cancer of the cervix with major surgery to remove her womb.