The late 1980s and early '90s saw a flood of American themed fast-food diners and bars open up across the UK.
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Laura Palmer-Hukins, 36, lives in Pocklington, East Yorkshire with husband David, 37, and daughters Minnie, six, and Etta, four. After discovering in 2019 she carried a high-risk cancer gene, known as Lynch syndrome, she decided to have her womb and ovaries removed. Lynch is estimated to cause 1,200 cases of bowel cancer in the UK each year, many in people under the age of 50.
Despite one in 125 people potentially being carriers of a Lynch syndrome mutation, only 5% of carriers know about it, along with one in six GPs. Women with the gene can have checks on their womb and ovaries, IVF to prevent passing the gene on and an elective hysterectomy. Here, Laura tells her story… “Watching my daughters playing together, I felt a lump rise in my throat.They were my pride and joy and I loved every moment of seeing them grow up.
But I was terrified that this privilege might be snatched away from me, leaving two little girls without a mother. After losing my dad Terry to bowel cancer just three days before Christmas 2018, I discovered a few months later that I’d inherited a genetic mutation from him that put me at a higher risk of also developing the disease. Known as Lynch syndrome, carriers have as much as an 80% greater chance of developing bowel cancer, often at a young age.
It also increases the risk of a number of other cancers, and as a woman, this meant ovarian and womb cancer. I was carrying the particularly high risk MSH2 gene, and there was a 50-50 chance that my girls, Minnie and Etta, had inherited it.The statistics were terrifying, especially after seeing the pain my father had endured. But as hard as it was, I felt empowered to know that I carried this time bomb inside me.
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