After losing their mum and sister to stomach cancer, Sophia Ahmed and the rest of her family were left heartbroken. But then devastatingly, Sophia and her siblings discovered a faulty gene ran in their family – which could lead them to the same tragic fate.
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WSince then, Sophia, 43, and her brothers Tahir, 49, and Omar, 31, have made the drastic decision to have their stomachs surgically removed to save their lives. Sophia, from Walsall, West Midlands, says, “We lost our mum, Pearl, to this horrible cancer in 2002, when she was just 49. Then we lost our sister, Yasmin, 10 years later, aged 32.
“Crazily, it was only through our own digging and persistence that we found the connection between their deaths, which would then go on…
